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We also have Soft/Epic. We recently began to scan the ABID panel sheets into Epic as lab view only. If you open Specimen Inquiry using the lab specimen number, go to Result Entry, then deselect everything except Antibody Identification, you can either add a scan or upload a document. Not sure how much of this is standard in Epic or is part of our unique build. We also considered Soft media, but could not justify the cost when Epic will allow the upload of a scan. I hope that is helpful!

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We ended up making our own solution, similar to Cliff's post. We created a program that allowed us to use a normal scanner to create a file in our shared network drive. Each patient has one folder, and within the folder are the different antibody workups, labeled by date of workup. It was a manual process to scan them all in, but one of my techs completed it in her downtime in about 2 months. It's only 1100 patients, but many have multiple workups per file. The shared network drive is backed up routinely, and we were told would be one of the earlier things to be granted offline access in an extended downtime. I am now impatiently awaiting the day I feel comfortable to get rid of all the paper that has been scanned in.....and then figure out what to do with that giant file cabinet.

In case anyone needed an update, you can contact mediaLab and they will ask for certain proofs before they will add in the JC checklist . A pain but doable.

We currently use OnBase for this. Fortunately, my facility was trying to keep transcriptionists in a job so they have been reassigned as scanners. They've been able to scan and load all of our indefinite keep items and they link to epic encounters. The only downfall was that pre-Epic workups had to be scanned into a shared drive type file because they could not be linked in OnBase. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this and I can find out. It is backed up routinely and is read-only for those allowed access. You do need an audit system in place to be compliant with AABB, so we put one in place and I added it to the SOP. At another facility I helped us go full digital, not even paper antigrams. It was a bit more messy tho because it utilized a shared drive. OnBase feels more secure and tamper proof.

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Just wanted to follow up about this. I was put in a virtual meeting with the folks who actually create the BT10 indicators (and relabel them for fisher to sell). It was the most demeaning meeting I've been part of in a while. I was told that any or all of the following HAD to be true: -The refrigerator temps had to be at 8C or above -- I have 4 continuous monitor probes that have not been over 5.7C in years with an average of 3.4C -The blood must be over 8C when the indicators are placed -- I have tested this many times with a contact IR thermometer and units very from 5.6-6.7C out of the supplier transport box, they are then left in the fridge at least 30min to acclimate before attaching the indicator which puts them at 5C or less. I have even placed them on glycerol bags with a probe inside and there is no reason why these things should activate. -The indicators are not fully attached to the bag -- there is a ring on the indicator that has no adhesive, so getting a full adhesion is challenging but I have more that alert that are fully attached and more than do not alarm that are NOT fully attached. -I need to activate these, then freeze them until ready for use -- I have to follow manufacturer's written instruction so says the standards (which does not include this) and the product touts that it requires NO pre conditioning at all. This is crazy. They explained how these work to me about 10 times, when I have no issue understanding the physics. It just doesn't work like they claim. I tried an experiment by testing a unit at 5.7C straight out of the shipping box, placed an indicator at 0 min, 15min, 30min, 1hr, 2 hr,while placed in the fridge (3.8C). Only at day 3, did I get alerts on the 0, 15min and 2 hr indicator. Then at the 1 week mark, all indicators had alerted. I have yet to get further feedback from the manufacturer but at this point my experience with them is so poor that I'm going back to my old vendor. At no time is anything in the process >7C, much less the 10C at which these are supposed to alert. Nevertheless... we're doing something wrong. Feel free to poke holes in my experiments.

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