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Sterile goods and CSSD with Columna Flow Search & Find

See every set, at every stage of its journey

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Live cart positions on the hospital floor plan – the same view theatre and sterile staff see.

Across a large hospital region, thousands of instrument sets move every day between the central sterile department and theatres on multiple sites. When a tray is delayed, no one can see where it is or when it will arrive, and the list slips.

Columna Flow Search & Find tracks where every instrument cart is, in both Search & Find and the sterile system your teams already use, so theatres always know where their order is.

From chasing trays to seeing them move

A modern surgical programme depends on the right instrument set reaching the right theatre at the right time. Today, much of that flow is invisible. Search & Find gives theatre and sterile teams the same live view of where each set is, so a tray in transit is visible rather than invisible, and lists can run as planned.

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Track every instrument cart on its journey between the sterile department and theatres, with orders in transit visible in real time.

See where every set is, at every stage

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    See where every instrument cart is

    Track every cart and set as it moves between washing, packing, transport, theatre and return. When a tray is needed, staff can see exactly where it is instead of phoning the sterile department or walking to look for it.

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    Theatres can see where their order is

    Theatre teams get a live view of where the set they need is on its journey, so they can plan around instrument availability instead of chasing it. Last-minute surprises become rarer.

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    Spot the bottleneck before it delays a list

    You can also see where the process slows down, such as dirty sets waiting too long before they reach washing. Sterile department teams can act on the bottleneck rather than discovering it after the fact.

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Live in Denmark

Nine hospitals now track sterile flow on one open platform

The Capital Region of Denmark tracks sterile flow across nine hospitals and two automated sterile services facilities – built on Systematic's IoT platform with Lyngsoe Systems.

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The instrument loop, visible at every step

Instrument sets follow a continuous loop: used in theatre, returned, washed, packed, made ready, and sent out again. Search & Find shows the location of every set at each stage of that loop, so the sterile department and the theatre coordinator work from the same live picture.

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The instrument journey as a single loop – dirty, washed, packed, ready, in theatre, returned.

Built into your existing sterile-processing system

Search & Find works directly with the sterile-processing system your teams already use, so each cart's location shows up alongside the records you already keep. Whether a set is fully sterile remains a decision your sterile system and staff make. Search & Find keeps the movement around that decision visible and quick to follow.

Learn more about Columna Flow IoT, interoperability and integrations →

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See how instrument tracking keeps your theatres running

Tell us where your instrument flow slips today, and we'll show you how other sterile departments made every cart visible from wash to theatre and back.

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