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  "title": "RFID Specimen Slide Label — Histology & Cytology",
  "description": "RFID specimen slide labels carry a NTAG210μ / NTAG213 NFC chip on an ultra-thin (<0.15 mm) PET label sized for the frosted end of a standard 75×25 mm...",
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    {
      "question": "Does the RFID label survive histology staining protocols?",
      "answer": "Yes. Our specimen slide labels are tested and validated through the complete histology processing workflow including formalin fixation, paraffin processing, xylene deparaffinisation, hematoxylin & eosin staining, special stains (PAS, Trichrome, Iron), immunohistochemistry (IHC) with antigen retrieval, dehydration, clearing and coverslipping. The label, adhesive, and NFC chip function reliably after all standard protocols."
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      "question": "Does the label affect microscope slide handling or viewing?",
      "answer": "No. The label is less than 0.15 mm thick and is confined to the frosted end of the slide — the same area where conventional handwritten or printed labels are placed. It does not extend into the specimen viewing area, does not affect coverslip application and does not interfere with microscope stage clearance on standard upright and inverted microscopes."
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      "question": "How does RFID improve slide archival retrieval?",
      "answer": "Each slide's NFC chip stores the case accession number. When a pathologist or researcher needs to retrieve archived slides, they enter the accession number in the search system. An NFC reader scans the slide storage trays and identifies the location of the target slides within seconds, replacing 15-45 minutes of manual visual searching through thousands of slides."
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      "question": "How does the RFID slide label satisfy CAP and CLIA specimen-identification requirements?",
      "answer": "CAP Anatomic Pathology Checklist items ANP.11605 (specimen identification) and ANP.22570 (slide labelling) require two patient identifiers on each slide plus documented labelling procedures. Our labels print the accession number and a second identifier (typically specimen type or block ID) in human-readable form on the label face, while the NFC chip encodes the same accession number electronically — satisfying both the dual-identifier requirement and eliminating the transcription error that CAP Q-Probes studies identified as the dominant failure mode. CLIA §493.1249 (preanalytic systems) traceability from receipt through archive is maintained automatically by the NFC scan events logged at embedding, sectioning, staining and coverslipping. Joint Commission NPSG.01.01.01 and ISO 15189:2022 clause 7.2.6 are satisfied by the same mechanism."
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    {
      "question": "How does the NFC slide label integrate with LIS and digital pathology scanners?",
      "answer": "The NFC chip stores only the accession number (typically 12-20 char alphanumeric); the LIS — Epic Beaker AP, Cerner CoPath, Sunquest, PowerPath, NovoPath — resolves it to the full patient and case record at read time, which keeps PHI off the physical tag and HIPAA-compliant. Integration is via HL7 v2.x ORM / ORU messaging or FHIR R4 Specimen / DiagnosticReport resources. For digital pathology workflows, the WSI scanner (Leica Aperio GT 450, Hamamatsu NanoZoomer S360, 3DHistech Pannoramic, Roche Ventana DP 600, Philips IntelliSite) performs a tray-level RFID read at loading, eliminating the barcode-read failure mode that staining reagent damage causes on 3-8% of slides. The DICOM Whole Slide Imaging Supplement 145 Slide ID (0040,0560) field ties the physical slide's EPC to its WSI image, so any downstream image retrieval can locate the source glass slide in the archive in under 30 seconds."
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