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Heading Toward New Era of Pathology e-Smart Management

National Cheng Kung University Hospital

Information
"National Cheng Kung University Medical Center focuses on critical medical treatments and values the medical safety of patients. The number of pathologic biopsy examination cases reaches 42,000 per year. If there is any error in the specimen label, replacement during transportation process, loss and erroneous placement of biopsy process, then it may cause irreversible injuries and delay of treatment to patients. Therefore, how to establish a set of e-information system capable of preventing human errors, automatically identifying errors and tracking status of pathologic biopsy specimens in order to increase the patient treatment safety and quality is the goal of this project. We thoroughly inspect the biopsy examination operation process, including the handling process before and during examination, we also convene cross-department and multi-division meetings for the entire hospital in order to find steps of high risks and to introduce the e-information system standard operation process for the entire hospital; thereby achieving the objective of complete pathologic specimen status and safety monitoring. "
Benefits

"1. Establish patient identification electronic information system: Before obtaining samples from patients, medical personnel shall perform patient identity identification operation. 2. Sample label barcode control: The sampling of pathologic tissue specimen utilizes barcodes in order to prevent sampling personnel from making incorrect attachments of patient labels. 3. Specimen boxing and transportation barcode control: Packaged specimens are placed inside the transportation boxes and locked. Then, a unique identification code is attached onto each box, and the box seal barcodes are used to control the specimens. 4. Information control for specimen transportation: Establish cross-department information platform to control the specimen delivery for examination progress and to track the status of the specimens. In addition, the specimen delay for delivery and examination warning function is also provided on the platform. 5. Establish pathology laboratory barcode information system: Improve steps of high risks, and reduce of the tissue specimen handling process in the laboratory. 6. Decrease of specimen labeling error rate: reduced from 0.054% to 0%. 7. Integrate pathologic tissue sampling operation procedure and information system of the entire hospital: improve specimen transportation safety. 8. Informationization process with reduction of complicated manual inspection operation: The daily last batch of tissue specimen same-day examination rate at the operating room is increased from 19.5% to 58.7%, and the timing of examination is improved. "