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FrozenSectionQA

The frozen-section clock from theatre to the call, a slow one escalated on your rule, and the final diagnosis compared.

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What it is

Times every frozen section and checks the call against the final diagnosis. Theatre asks for a frozen section with the site and the question, and marks the moment the specimen leaves theatre (once, never in the future, before the request or after the lab received it). The lab clock starts when the tissue is received and stops at the verbal call, against the lab’s target (20 minutes unless it sets another); the relay time runs from leaving theatre to the call (from receipt when nobody marked it sent) and is shown beside it. The relay board lists every section still waiting for its call with the minutes it has waited; one past its own target by more than your department’s own margin reads “escalate” until somebody records whom they told. The rule — the margin, whom to tell and its source — is yours: none ships, a new rule replaces the old from then on and the old stays on record, and the app contacts nobody. The call is logged with what was said, who gave it, who in theatre took it, and that it was read back; a call nobody repeated cannot be logged. When the permanent sections are out, the pathologist records the final diagnosis and whether the call was concordant, deferred or discordant, and a discordance must say what kind (sampling, interpretation, technical) and why. The QA view shows the concordance rate, the deferral rate, the median time and the share within target, with every discordance listed for review.

Who uses it: Built for: Diagnostics & Labs
Reads: Frozen section requests from theatre, the specimen and surgical case
Writes: The time it left theatre, the receipt time and the verbal call, escalations of a slow section and the department’s escalation rule, the final diagnosis and concordance
Never: It does not read the slide or override a diagnosis, and it calls or messages nobody: an escalation is recorded by the person who made it.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: PHI-lite. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Frozen sections and their QA record stay on record; nothing else changes.

In the product

Who uses it: Doctor — the demo profile it is best tried as
Where it opens: Clinical › Frozen Sections /frozen-section
Permission: frozensection.read

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How it works

Theatre asks and sends, the lab receivesThe request names the site and the question; theatre marks when the specimen left, and receipt in the lab starts the lab clock. The relay board shows what is still waiting, and flags one past your own escalation rule until you record whom you told.
Give the call, have it read backLog what you told theatre and who took it. It must be read back before it is logged; the time from theatre to the call sits beside the lab time.
Compare with the finalWhen the permanent sections are out, record the diagnosis and whether the call agreed.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not read the slide or override a diagnosis, and it calls or messages nobody: an escalation is recorded by the person who made it.

It never logs a call without a read-back, and never takes a final diagnosis before the call it is compared with.

AI in FrozenSectionQA

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in FrozenSectionQA today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

FrozenSectionQA — Frozen Sections — Time frozen sections from theatre, escalate slow ones, compare the call with the final — 01Frozen Sections — Time frozen sections from theatre, escalate slow ones, compare the call with the finalCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Frozen Sections — Time frozen sections from theatre, escalate slow ones, compare the call with the finalCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Questions clinics ask

What does FrozenSectionQA do?

The frozen-section clock from theatre to the call, a slow one escalated on your rule, and the final diagnosis compared. Times every frozen section and checks the call against the final diagnosis. Theatre asks for a frozen section with the site and the question, and marks the moment the specimen leaves theatre (once, never in the future, before the request or after the lab received it). The lab clock starts when the tissue is received and stops at the verbal call, against the lab’s target (20 minutes unless it sets another); the relay time runs from leaving theatre to the call (from receipt when nobody marked it sent) and is shown beside it. The relay board lists every section still waiting for its call with the minutes it has waited; one past its own target by more than your department’s own margin reads “escalate” until somebody records whom they told. The rule — the margin, whom to tell and its source — is yours: none ships, a new rule replaces the old from then on and the old stays on record, and the app contacts nobody. The call is logged with what was said, who gave it, who in theatre took it, and that it was read back; a call nobody repeated cannot be logged. When the permanent sections are out, the pathologist records the final diagnosis and whether the call was concordant, deferred or discordant, and a discordance must say what kind (sampling, interpretation, technical) and why. The QA view shows the concordance rate, the deferral rate, the median time and the share within target, with every discordance listed for review.

What data does FrozenSectionQA read and write?

FrozenSectionQA reads frozen section requests from theatre, the specimen and surgical case and writes the time it left theatre, the receipt time and the verbal call, escalations of a slow section and the department’s escalation rule, the final diagnosis and concordance. Its data class is PHI-lite. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does FrozenSectionQA deliberately not do?

It does not read the slide or override a diagnosis, and it calls or messages nobody: an escalation is recorded by the person who made it. It never logs a call without a read-back, and never takes a final diagnosis before the call it is compared with.

What happens to our data if we uninstall FrozenSectionQA?

Frozen sections and their QA record stay on record; nothing else changes.

Is FrozenSectionQA available today?

Yes — FrozenSectionQA is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see FrozenSectionQA running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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