SARS-CoV-2 IgG Serology Testing
June 10, 2021
Please note effective 14th June, SARS-CoV-2 IgG serology testing will be available at Pathlab. This assay can potentially be used to assess vaccine response and to detect previous infection. This is a quantitative IgG assay performed on the Abbott Alinity platform. However, as it is still not clear exactly what level of antibodies confers reliable protection against COVID-19 post-vaccination, we…
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Mycobacterial Culture at Waikato Hospital Laboratory
June 03, 2021
Samples for mycobacterial culture should be restricted to urgent requests only until further notice. Please note that mycobacterial culture for the whole region (Bay of Plenty, Lakes and Waikato DHBs) is performed in the purpose-built PC3 containment laboratory at Waikato hospital. Due to the recent cyber-attack on Waikato DHB, the registration, processing and reporting of these samples needs to…
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WDHB Data Outage
May 21, 2021
As Waikato DHB navigate through the difficult issue of running a complex service without any IT systems, we advise as follows. Waikato DHB laboratories (HWL): Are able to do testing, however, are limited to covid and urgent tests. Critical results will be reported via telephone as they are unable to electronically report. Referral work to HWL just prior to the outage are being reported by paper…
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eOrders
May 18, 2021
Over the past few months Pathlab have been installing computers at our collection rooms in the Eastern and Western Bay of Plenty. We would like to acknowledge and thank those practices who have been involved in the early stage of the eOrders roll out, assisting with sending some patients to our collection rooms without request forms. This has enabled our Patient Services teams to be eased into a…
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Faxing Update April '21
April 15, 2021
On April the 23rd 2021, our fax lines will be transitioning from analogue to digital technology with this change likely to reduce the reliability of fax transmissions to you. We have found a very small number of clinicians that have their primary reporting to be Fax - we will be contacting you individually to assist with switching to another supported reporting technology option. Our preferred…
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