Your theatre is waiting on a tray no one can find.
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 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. When a tray is late, staff phone around and walk to the sterile department to look for it. Sets get misplaced between washing, packing, transport and return, and a missing tray can delay or cancel a procedure. The team coordinating it all works without a live view of where anything is.
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.
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.
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.
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