I am wondering if anyone else using Meditech for their LIS and HCLL transfusion in their blood bank. If you do, how do your phlebotomists get a label to draw patient specimens? We currently have a duplicate order that generates a label in Meditech and then an order in HCLL. We would like to get rid of the duplicate orders. Any suggestions?

We don't have Meditech, so I can't be of any help to you. We have McKesson's Horizon Lab interfaced to the Blood Bank HCLL.

The specimen collection label is generated by Horizon when the nursing unit orders a BB test. When the collected sample is accession in Horizon, the BB order crosses into HCLL. (ie: The same order crosses into HCLL......no "duplicate order" is involved.) (How or why does your system generate a duplicate order?)

When we log the patient specimen into HCLL, that generate a "Specimen Label" that can be read by the HCLL bar code readers and our Echo instrument. (It's a specimen label, not a duplicate order.)

Hope others that have Meditech and HCLL can help you with your problem.

Donna