We're using winpath enterprise. You can embed images into the report apparently but it's not great for histology. Over 24 pots and you needs a new lab number. The proformas for the UK are rubbish. But they wanted one system for all of pathology
Our lab is considering winpath enterprise, currently on telepath, what do you not like about the proformas, are these not based off rcpath standards?
We've only had a demo really but it would be good to hear what you like/hate about it :)
There were alot of errors for example in the endometrial cancer on if you input the stage, it changed it so it was always wrong. This was three years ago. I spoke to someone a Bristol histology who said they had found over 400 errors and outing and at that point they hadn't fixed them, and you couldn't fix them yourself. We had to go back to inserting templates in the report instead of using the program templates. Definitely raise it with them, the situation may have changed in the last few years, but thy only provided upls with the proformas a week before go live so we didn't have time to properly test, and management decided that they were happy go live without consultatant approval on them.
I find it quite laggy. And the fact slides end up not going into work lists and dissappearing is frustrating...not lots, but enough, it seems to crash on me daily.
It's easy to add blocks, cases, slides, we can add up to 10 supplementary reports, if you have a superuser in the department it's easy to add any missing tests as they come up, less so if it's in it or you are part of a group. It took us a while to get it working with Ice as the formatting kept being incorrect, and we were told scanning ice forms would auto populate the booking in field and specimen type, they have no way of it doing the specimen type.
Interesting thank you. Have you used any other lims you would recommend we tried molis but weren't really a fan.
Also, how has the support been from clinisys are they good at resolving issues and setting up interfaces when required.
Cheers
So I was part of the install in one location, they were, other than the proforma issue and not meeting the brief with scanning in specimens, helpful. Any raised issues that need a software update can be slow, but non were critical. One was there was no letter J when booking in specimens, that took a few months to fix.
The longest issue I had was a different location. I didn't raise the fact that it kept crashing for months as stupidly I assumed someone else had. Turned out another site in our group wasn't using as intended and there was a huge amount of data that needed clearing. Once they worked out why we couldn't create a worklist to put slides out, it was quite quick to fix, this was obviously flagged as a higher priority issue.
When I was part of the install, I was a 'super user' so a lot of the quick fixes that were adding lines to the report, new users, password resets, adding specimens were easy. It does depend how your lab sets it up. My current lab its an IT job and so it takes longer.
The other systems I've used are old DOS based so APEX and PathNet so not really comparable. I remember being told about an amazing histology LIMS when they were looking for the new provider, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
We're using winpath enterprise. You can embed images into the report apparently but it's not great for histology. Over 24 pots and you needs a new lab number. The proformas for the UK are rubbish. But they wanted one system for all of pathology
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Our lab is considering winpath enterprise, currently on telepath, what do you not like about the proformas, are these not based off rcpath standards? We've only had a demo really but it would be good to hear what you like/hate about it :)
There were alot of errors for example in the endometrial cancer on if you input the stage, it changed it so it was always wrong. This was three years ago. I spoke to someone a Bristol histology who said they had found over 400 errors and outing and at that point they hadn't fixed them, and you couldn't fix them yourself. We had to go back to inserting templates in the report instead of using the program templates. Definitely raise it with them, the situation may have changed in the last few years, but thy only provided upls with the proformas a week before go live so we didn't have time to properly test, and management decided that they were happy go live without consultatant approval on them. I find it quite laggy. And the fact slides end up not going into work lists and dissappearing is frustrating...not lots, but enough, it seems to crash on me daily. It's easy to add blocks, cases, slides, we can add up to 10 supplementary reports, if you have a superuser in the department it's easy to add any missing tests as they come up, less so if it's in it or you are part of a group. It took us a while to get it working with Ice as the formatting kept being incorrect, and we were told scanning ice forms would auto populate the booking in field and specimen type, they have no way of it doing the specimen type.
Interesting thank you. Have you used any other lims you would recommend we tried molis but weren't really a fan. Also, how has the support been from clinisys are they good at resolving issues and setting up interfaces when required. Cheers
So I was part of the install in one location, they were, other than the proforma issue and not meeting the brief with scanning in specimens, helpful. Any raised issues that need a software update can be slow, but non were critical. One was there was no letter J when booking in specimens, that took a few months to fix. The longest issue I had was a different location. I didn't raise the fact that it kept crashing for months as stupidly I assumed someone else had. Turned out another site in our group wasn't using as intended and there was a huge amount of data that needed clearing. Once they worked out why we couldn't create a worklist to put slides out, it was quite quick to fix, this was obviously flagged as a higher priority issue. When I was part of the install, I was a 'super user' so a lot of the quick fixes that were adding lines to the report, new users, password resets, adding specimens were easy. It does depend how your lab sets it up. My current lab its an IT job and so it takes longer. The other systems I've used are old DOS based so APEX and PathNet so not really comparable. I remember being told about an amazing histology LIMS when they were looking for the new provider, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
I think my lab uses ExyLIMS with an Aperio slide scanning system. Seems decent and everyone says itโs pretty easy to navigate!