Sign Out a Histopathology or Microbiology Case
Who / when: the Pathologist who reads tissue and culture work. Histopathology (the study of tissue and cells under the microscope) and microbiology (culturing organisms and testing their sensitivity to drugs) are not single-number results — they are cases that build up over hours or days, then get signed out into a narrative report. This page covers how a case appears and how you close it.
The case is created for you at order time. When a clinician orders a histopathology or microbiology test from the catalogue, Veona reads the test’s department and, in the same transaction, mints the worklist row — a histo case (accessioned, with the clinical detail carried through encrypted) or a culture (plated, day one). You do not open the case by hand; you find it already waiting on your worklist.
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Pathologist — for tissue work, open Labs → Histopathology (“Histology and cytology sign-out”). The case raised by the order sits in the worklist, already Accessioned with its HIS-… accession minted and the ordering clinician’s clinical details attached.
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Pathologist — open the case and enter the structured result: the macroscopic and microscopic description, the diagnosis, and any comment. Save as you work.
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Pathologist — for culture work, open Labs → Microbiology (“Culture, sensitivity, and micro sign-out”) instead. The culture raised by the order sits in the micro worklist, already Plated on day one. Record the organism(s) grown and the sensitivity panel as the culture matures.
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Pathologist — when the case is complete, press the sign-out action and enter your 6-digit eSign PIN (your electronic signature, separate from your password). Signing verifies and releases the report.
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Pathologist — on signing, Veona renders the branded report PDF for the case and releases it to the ordering clinician and the patient record.
What happens next: the signed report joins the patient’s record and reaches the ordering clinician’s view, and the patient sees it on the portal if it has been released to them. Because the case rode in on a single order, it lands back on the physician’s unified worklist alongside any other lines from the same requisition. If you have not raised the order yet, an analyzer-routed lab order is sent down to the instrument the same way ordinary chemistry is.