Customer Cases

Oct 23

From 1.275 million to 3.1 million slides capacity

The first day we were using the Fina system I came out of my office and asked Scott where all my blocks were. When he said they were already filed I didn’t believe him…until he showed me. And that made me a believer! I had never seen that many blocks filed before that time in the day.

Linda McDonald

Histology Lab Manager (retired)

Ohio, USA

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Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Boston

Oct 23

From One decision can change the workflow drastically

With the increasing rate of clinical trial participation, the worst call you can make in the Asset Management Services is telling a patient that you do not have their block and they cannot enter a trial.

Zahra Aryan

Asset Manager

Boston, Massachusetts

Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Boston

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Sept 23

Reducing errors and lost samples

I like it a lot. It is a brilliant bit of kit! Location-based archiving is the way forward.

Scott Gable

Cellular Pathology & Mortuary Service Manager & Lead Biomedical Scientist

Cardiff, Wales

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Sept 23

Advancing preprocessor scanning

The Hydra system helped us narrow down what happened to our samples between grossing and embedding. This helped us improve our own processes and focus on our roles in supporting patient care.

Lily Guevara

Grossing technician

Dallas, Texas

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2022

Streamlining laboratory workflow with Fina and Crystal systems

We have witnessed a profound revolution to our laboratory. This automatic and traceable system has not only secured the precious and large amount of blocks and slides in our lab, but also alleviated our workload of archiving by approximately 70%

Wang Yu

Technician leader of the pathology lab, Gastroenterology Department

Changchun, Jilin, China

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2022

Reducing Archiving and Retrieval Time and Improving Patient Safety with Fina

In the morning we always have a lot of specimens to retrieve as the Pathologists often work late and will leave a list for the following morning. We can now just send the list to the Fina and retrieve them quickly. It’s a big time saving.

Ian Overduin

Research & Development and Project Manager

Rotterdam, Netherlands

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2022

Reducing Archiving and Retrieval Time with Fina

In conclusion, I would say that the Fina and Crystal systems are very simple to use, robust and reliable. They have allowed us to save a lot of time on archiving of blocks and slides and to have an excellent level of traceability. We no longer lose blocks or slides, which allows us to work more serenely.

Professeur Nathalie Rioux-Leclearcq and Carole PETIT

Head of Department and laboratory assistant

Rennes, France

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2021

Reducing Archiving and Retrieval Time with Fina

We have saved a few hours a day in archiving blocks and slides. We no longer have the problem of misplaced blocks or slides, traceability with Fina and Crystal allows us to work with complete peace of mind. Today, no one would want to go back to manual archiving. For the slides, traceability is even more important because of different approvers, and we also carry out a lot of research projects.

Laure Annette

Anatomy and Cytology Pathology Laboratory Manager

Paris, France

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June 2021

Is the automation of block and slide archiving essential?

We would not like to go back to the way things were, even if the doctors find that retrieval the slides is more restrictive than before. Today, we no longer lose blocks or slides and we save a lot of time in archiving them, especially for the slides. A time often equal to one FTE was spent on archiving and can now be reinvested in other on other value-added tasks, such as stock management or inventory management for example.

Gaël Gascoin

Health executive at the anatomopathology laboratory. Toulouse, France

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2020

Overcoming archiving inefficiences with Fina

“Patient safety is very important to me and being at a large institution and the type of cases we get, we are constantly going back to our blocks, whether it be for additional testing or research for a clinical trial, and being able to locate them in a timely manner and track them is the most important thing for me.

Sue Paturzo

TJUH lab supervisor

Philadelphia, United States

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2019

Easier Block Archiving with the FINA Block Management System

We used to spend half of our time sorting and locating tissue blocks. Search for blocks? That hardly ever happens these days with the Dreampath systems. I would not want to work without it now.

Olga Schwarz

MTA Laboratory Manager

Karlsruhe, Germany

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2016

Traceability and storage of blocks using a Fina

In addition, the automatic paraffin block scanning system (which we currently only use for cassettes) has primarily improved their traceability, speeding up the storage process due to the random disposition in boxes that are already booked once the laboratory technician performs the microtome cut.

Empoli, Italy

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2015

Implementation of traceability and archiving of blocks using Fina

The traceability of samples improved: thanks to this system is possible to know always where the sample is, who took it, when, and for how long the samples won’t be in the archive. It also allowed us to optimize time and spaces

Prof. Pietro Micheli, Francesco Russo

U.O.C. Anatomia ed Istologia

Naples, Italy

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2015

Implementation of a block management system and software in Spain

Implementation of Fina scanner helped to save 3 hours daily spent in manual management blocks tasks. This represents 0,5 FTE (8% of our resources in technicians). This technical staff time can be assigned to other tasks.

Dra. A. Calatrava

MD, pathologist. Lab Manager

Valencia, Spain

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2015

Evaluating Fina for block management

We have gained resources by saving 1 FTE, moreover we have freed up 4 linear meters of space in the lab, proving sample traceability massively, as well as safety and regulatory.

Prof. Valérie Costes-Martineau

France

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