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Automated outsourcing for Barts Health NHS Trust
The Cellular Pathology Department at Barts Health NHS Trust has deployed a TalkingPoint automation solution.
The Cellular Pathology Department at Barts Health NHS Trust has deployed a TalkingPoint automation solution to automate the transfer of outsourced histology reports into the department’s LIMS.
Outsourcing to Source LDPath was helping to alleviate resourcing issues, however the transfer of cases to the Trust’s LIMS involved a significant amount of manual processing and, due to workload, authorisation of the outsourced reports was often delayed.
A connectivity solution was required to enable reports from Source LDPath to be automatically imported into the LIMS (WinPath Enterprise).
Explains Mohammed Rafique, Deputy Pathology IT Manager, Barts Health: "We developed a close and productive collaboration with the TalkingPoint Team and were impressed with TalkingPoint's expertise and understanding of our LIMS and willingness to explore ways to improve our workflow.”
The auto-transfer workflow was deployed at Barts Health NHS Trust on 1st August 2023 and within a matter of days, almost 100% of outsourced reports were being authorised on the same day as being reported.
The automation, once started, operates without human intervention, compiling lists of priority cancer cases and any reports with queries.
