Skip to content
Automation Squad

Role

AI for Histology Technicians

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Prepare histological slides from tissue sections for microscopic examination and diagnosis by pathologists. May assist with research studies.

Histology Technicians · O*NET 29-2012.01 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

5 of 10tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

11 matched to the tools histology technicians use. Showing 11.

  • Microsoft Outlook

    MCP server

    Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

    Microsoft Outlook

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

    MCP server

  • Excel

    MCP server

  • Excel

    Skill

  • Medidata

    Connector

    Medidata provides clinical trial software solutions

    Medidata

  • Microsoft 365 Excel

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Microsoft Outlook

    App

  • PowerOffice

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Spreadsheet

    Skill

  • Spreadsheetcom

    App

The tools this job actually uses

10 documented for this occupation. Showing 10, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • MEDITECH softwarehot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Brady Specimen Labeling System
  • Cerner Millennium
  • Laboratory information system LIS
  • Specimen labeling system software

What this job involves

9 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 9.

  1. Cut sections of body tissues for microscopic examination, using microtomes.
  2. Embed tissue specimens into paraffin wax blocks, or infiltrate tissue specimens with wax.
  3. Mount tissue specimens on glass slides.
  4. Stain tissue specimens with dyes or other chemicals to make cell details visible under microscopes.
  5. Freeze tissue specimens.
  6. Operate computerized laboratory equipment to dehydrate, decalcify, or microincinerate tissue samples.
  7. Archive diagnostic material, such as histologic slides and blocks.
  8. Maintain laboratory equipment, such as microscopes, mass spectrometers, microtomes, immunostainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, and water baths.
  9. Load slides onto staining equipment.
← All roles