The Innovators 2021
R-TRACKER: A TRUE MILESTONE IN SPECIMEN TRACEABILITY
Traceability is of paramount importance for patient safety – this is not a choice, but an ethical obligation. However, while most agree that chain of custody is pivotal in pathology labs to ensure patient safety, several steps in the anatomic pathology (AP) analysis process – from accessioning to specimen processing – are not fully tracked or are done manually. Manual scanning is a tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone task in which operators are required to scan hundreds of cassettes one by one. This bears the risk of tracking errors and – ultimately – misdiagnoses. Read more