Update Order for Specimen Obtained During Procedure

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Pathology Orders for All Other Specialties

For patients of all specialties other than Dermatology and Ambulatory Surgery, pathology orders in the Biopsy Log are created for specimens that are obtained during a procedure automatically when you select the check box for sending a specimen to pathology. When you select the specialty All Others, pathology records for Dermatology and Ambulatory Surgery do not appear in the Pathology Orders grid. The same is true if you select the specialty Dermatology or Ambulatory Surgery, orders for the All Others specialty do not appear in the grid. See Also: Update Order for Specimen Obtained During Procedure Record a Patient/Provider Has Been Notified of Results Generate and Save a Benign Pathology Letter Send Tasks Regarding a Pathology Order or Results Update Order for Specimen Obtained During Procedure Parent topic: Pathology Orders in the Biopsy Log

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Update an Ambulatory Surgery Order

For Ambulatory Surgery patients, if the revised diagnosis is malignant and you enter the updated diagnosis into the Diagnosis field in the Pathology Results section, the same diagnosis appears in the grid on the Biopsy Log and on the Home Page. Select the Ambulatory Surgery specialty, and perform a search for Ambulatory Surgery orders. Highlight an Ambulatory Surgery order in the Pathology Orders grid. Information in the row displays in the fields of the Pathology Results section for ambulatory surgery patients. Click the Accession # field and type the accession number or case number assigned by the laboratory for the specimen. Click the Site Specific field and select the specimen ID letter assigned to the specimen. Click the Procedure description field and select the appropriate service item ID and description from the list. Click the first Diagnosis field and use the diagnosis search tool to select the diagnosis suggested by the laboratory report. Repeat this step for each Diagnosis

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Update a Dermatology Order for Pathology

For Dermatology patients, if the revised diagnosis is malignant and you enter the updated diagnosis into the Diagnosis field in the Pathology Results section, the same diagnosis appears in the Skin Cancer Log grid on the Biopsy Log and on the Home Page. Select the Dermatology specialty, and perform a search for Dermatology orders. Highlight a Dermatology order in the Pathology Orders grid. Information in the row displays in the fields of the Pathology Results section for Dermatology patients. Click the Accession # field and type the accession number or case number assigned by the laboratory for the specimen. Click the Specimen ID field and select the specimen ID letter assigned to the specimen. Click the Diagnosis field and use the diagnosis search tool to select the diagnosis suggested by the laboratory report. Click the Recommended Treatment field and select the recommended treatment from the list. If you have not treated the lesion, select No for the Lesion has been treated question

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Record a Patient/Provider Has Been Notified of Results

If a patient or a patient's provider (PCP or referring provider) has been notified of pathology results, you can record that information, including the date and method of notification. Select the specialty and perform a search for the pathology order record. Highlight the record in the Pathology Orders grid. The details of the selected record display in the Pathology Results panel of the Biopsy Log. To indicate that a patient has been notified, navigate to the Pathology Results section of the Pathology Orders panel and select the Patient Notified check box. The On date field displays the current date. To change the date, click the On field and use the calendar to select a different date. Click the Method field and select the method used to contact the patient. To record that the patient's PCP or referring provider has been notified, repeat these steps after selecting the appropriate provider check box. Click Update. This data is stored in Order Management for that biopsy record. Parent

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Document Specimen Collection Details

On the ASC-Intraprocedure template, navigate to the Specimen Collection panel, and click Add. The ASC Specimen Collection template launches. Enter the following specimen collection details: Send to Method Type Qty To enter the Location where the specimen was obtained, do one of the following: To add a single location, select a value from the list and click Cancel. To add more than one location, select a value from the list, click OK to select another location, and then click Cancel to close the list. The selected options concatenate in the Location field separated by commas. The maximum character limit of the field is 100. An alert message appears if you exceed the maximum limit of characters in the Location field. Select the Container the specimen is stored in from the list. The system populates the following fields with data from the corresponding procedure documented in the Procedure panel. Procedure Pre procedure diagnosis description Code Pre Procedure Indication The system popula

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Search for Pathology Orders and Results

When you select the specialty All Others, pathology orders for Dermatology and Ambulatory Surgery do not appear in the Pathology Orders grid. The same is true if you select the specialty Dermatology or Ambulatory Surgery, pathology orders for the All Others specialty do not appear in the grid. Click the Specialty field and select the appropriate specialty from the list. If you select Dermatology as the specialty, the Dermatology Pathology Order Search panel appears, which includes search criteria fields relevant for dermatology. If you select Ambulatory Surgery as the specialty, the Ambulatory Pathology Order Search panel appears, which includes search criteria fields relevant for ambulatory surgery, currently GI. If you select ll Others as the specialty, the standard Pathology Order Search panel appears, with search criteria fields suitable for all specialties. Use the fields in the Pathology Order Search panel to enter or select search criteria to locate the specific pathology record

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