Cantel and Lyngsoe Systems have won a seven-year contract to supply NHS Lothian with new software to help manage and track sterile assets across the Health Board.
Cantel will be supplying its new CANEXIS Integrated Workflow Solution, which links data and decision-making to support the efficient operation of critical hospital departments. it brings together differing departmental software into one tool and is available for endoscopy, sterilisation and surgical departments.
The system will launch within the sterile processing department at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh and extend out to endoscopy, dental and local decontamination units and operating theatres throughout the Health Board. Lyngsoe Systems will be supplying the X-TRACKING Location Tracking Software which will track and trace the RFID tagged surgical sets, endoscopes and equipment kits as they move between the different hospitals and storage facilities.
This project will be the first of its kind in Scotland to deliver a fully integrated system with GS1 Standards, and provides NHS Lothian with a tool to maximise operational efficiency, while maintaining high standards of patient safety. The system will help the Health Board manage its inventory of surgical instruments to ensure full traceability and safety throughout the sterilisation and decontamination processes.
Integration of these two software systems will provide full visibility of tray sets, endoscopes and other sterile goods as they leave the sterilisation and decontamination departments and record them arriving at the remote storage facilities spread across the Health Board.
The X-Tracking software will also be used to help keep track of the health boards large inventory of medical devices. The clinical engineering team has already started deploying new RFID embedded GS1 asset labels to medical devices and will be integrating the X-Tracking software with their Medusa asset management software.
