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The set knows which patient it reached

Sterilisation happens anyway: instruments are washed, packed, run through a cycle, written down. The hard part is the proof — showing, eight months later, which set was used on a given patient and which cycle that set had been through. The platform treats the autoclave as equipment with a maintenance recipe and the instrument set as a lot, because that is exactly what they are.

Who this page is for

Practice owner or clinic manager

A practice with two to ten chairs, where the sterilisation record lives in a notebook, and an inspection means looking for the page of the day a particular patient was treated.

01The problem

What happens today, without a system

01

You sterilise correctly, but you cannot prove it

The cycle runs, the indicator changes colour, the nurse writes it in the notebook at the end of the shift. Eight months later the question is not whether you sterilised, but which set was used on that patient and which cycle the set had been through. The notebook answers slowly, and only if it was filled in that same day.

02

The set has no inventory, only habit

Whoever packs it knows from memory what goes into each set. When an instrument is lost or a tip is replaced, no record changes, because there is no record. And when the set comes back round the circuit, nobody can say which cycle number it is on.

03

The autoclave stops on the fully booked day

Servicing and validation tests are remembered, not scheduled. When the machine is out for a day, the schedule is moved over the phone, patient by patient, and the second autoclave — if there is one — takes over without anyone knowing which load fell behind.

04

Consumables expire on the shelf

Anaesthetics, impression materials and indicators all have expiry dates. They are ordered when they run out, not when they approach the reorder point, and what is nearest to hand gets used rather than what expires first. The difference shows up at stocktake, as goods thrown away.

02What the platform does

The capabilities, written in your language

They are the same eight capabilities everywhere; only the names of the things they track change. Where there is a screenshot, it is from the real application, with real data.

  1. 01Machine and tool maintenance

    The autoclave is equipment, not an inventory item

    Each machine has its own record — manufacturer, serial number, documents — and its servicing procedure written step by step, with what each step needs. The next due date sits on the row, in the list, and anything that has fallen behind is visible there, not something you hear from a nurse. When the procedure changes, the old one is archived rather than deleted, so that what was done under it stays true.

    The same record holds the history: every completed intervention, with the date it was finished, the procedure it followed and the person who carried it out.

  2. 02Traceability of the work

    The set's code reaches the patient's record

    The set behaves like a lot: it has an inventory of the instruments inside it, a code of its own and a route — packing, cycle, storage, use. Scanning at the chair links the set to the patient at the moment it is opened, not in the evening, from memory. A year later the search runs both ways: from the patient to the sets used, and from a suspect cycle to every patient it touched. The code is yours and goes as it is into the patient's medical record: the platform produces it and keeps it tied to the cycle, rather than locking it inside a screen of its own.

    Romanian Ministry of Health Order 1761/2021, article 53, requires an instrument inventory for every set, an individual coding system, and the set's code to be recorded throughout the reprocessing circuit — including in the patient's medical records. Since 30 March 2022, through the amendment made by Order 854/2022, electronic traceability is explicitly permitted.

  3. 03Preventive alerts

    Due dates schedule themselves

    The rule is written once — the machine, the procedure, the interval — and from there the jobs appear in the plan without anyone asking for them. Consumables work the same way: below the reorder point, the system proposes the order instead of waiting for someone to notice the empty box.

    Anything past its date appears marked, with the due date and the interval it was calculated from — monthly, quarterly, yearly.

  4. 04Efficiency of your people

    You know who packed it and who ran the cycle

    Every step of the reprocessing circuit carries a person, recorded as the step is performed, from a tablet or a phone. Not to find someone to blame: the sterilisation log asks for the operator anyway, and a signature added at the end of the day does not say who was working at eleven in the morning.

    One screen shows who is working and for how long, who has a task assigned and has not started it, who is free.

  5. 05Real-time reporting

    How many cycles, on which machine, in which month

    The number of cycles per autoclave, material consumption over a range, the due dates coming up — all readable whenever you want, over the period you choose. The report is not assembled from the notebook on the morning it is asked for.

    Consumption is broken down by month and by the machines that generated it, with real quantity next to estimated quantity.

  6. 06Centralised communication

    The correspondence with the lab sits next to the case

    Work sent to the dental laboratory, the confirmations, the supplier orders — all attached to the patient and to their case, not to one person's inbox. Whoever picks it up the next day sees everything that was said. Email today; WhatsApp is the next step, not something we promise you today.

    The patient record gathers the cases, the documents, the invoices and the history of the conversation in one place.

  7. 07AI models on your own data

    You ask in your own words, it answers from your own data

    “Which sets went through Tuesday morning's cycle” and “which machines have validation due this month” are questions with answers, not reports you have to ask someone for. The assistant reads from your own database, not from a general model that guesses.

    What it produces is visible even without asking: every machine has its predictions tab, with the interventions due in the next 90 days and the materials they need.

03What does not apply

The capabilities that have no place here

We write them out. A platform that claims to do everything for everyone says nothing about anyone.

  • Lead qualification and follow-up

    Lead qualification and follow-up does not belong here. A patient is not a lead, and the promotion of medical services follows rules of its own that a sales pipeline knows nothing about. The module stays in the platform for those who need it; we do not sell it to a practice, because it is not what solves the problem that brought you to this page.

05By role

What changes for each person in the company

Practice owner

Today
When a complaint arrives you look for the day you treated the patient and hope the notebook was filled in then, not the day after.
With the platform
You search for the patient and see the sets used, the cycle they went through and the person who ran it.

Nurse responsible for sterilisation

Today
You keep in your head what goes into each set and write the cycles in the notebook at the end of the shift.
With the platform
You scan the set when packing it and when loading the autoclave; the inventory and the cycle write themselves.

Chairside assistant

Today
You take the set out of the cupboard and check the indicator. Which set it was stays in your memory.
With the platform
You scan the code on the set before opening it. The link to the patient is made right there, not later.

Clinic manager

Today
You find out a machine is overdue for servicing on the day it stops.
With the platform
You see the due dates before they arrive, on each machine, and move them into days with no appointments.
06Results

Published figures, not promises

These are results achieved by real customers and already published. The case studies carrying their names go out once they have validated them.

The set's code
in the patient's record, written at the scan, not at the end of the shift
What the platform does, not a client figure. Case studies, with names and numbers, are published once they have been validated.
90 days
of due dates visible in advance, on every machine
The prediction window of the maintenance module, the same one used in the factory.
One scan
links the set to the patient, at the moment it is opened
The link is made during the work. Nothing is reconstructed in the evening, from memory.

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