Anatomic Pathology Orders

Anatomic Pathology (AP) laboratory service now has a mechanism for clinicians to provide required patient-specific,procedure-specific, and specimen-specific information to facilitate specimen processing by pathologists.  A new Anatomic Pathology Order Dialog is available with the following available order types:

When opening the Anatomic Pathology order dialog, you must first select one of the available order types, such as seen below, for example Bone Marrow, Bronchial Biopsy, etc. 


Because each order type may require different information, different order dialog fields display when the user selects an order type.  

Screen capture shows the Anatomic Pathology Ordering dialog with the Available Order list in a red box.

 

The Anatomic Pathology Ordering dialog is shown below. On this dialog, the user selects the type, such as Dermatology. Red boxes and numbers added to describe different areas.

 

The Anatomic Pathology Orders dialog.  Users select types of order and then fill in the fields, when order was selected.

 

The dialog has several areas that interact. Some areas of the dialog are described briefly below.

  1. Order-specific fields such as Urgency and Collection Date/Time.
  2. List of Specimens for this order.
  3. The Current Specimen being viewed in box 4.
  4. Specimen-specific fields, such as the Specimen Description//Anatomic Site.
  5. Button to delete the current specimen.
  6. Multiple tabs to enter free text fields, such as Clinical History.

 

When the user selects Anatomic Pathology from an order menu or the Orders pane, the Anatomic Pathology Ordering dialog displays and the first thing to select is an order type (e.g., Bone Marrow, Dermatology, etc).

 

When an order type is selected, the rest of the fields on the dialog change to gather the information for that type of order. 

 

To place an Anatomic Pathology order, use these steps:

 

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