Instrument Tracking System

As the healthcare industry becomes more complex, the need to meticulously track your instrument sets and provide the highest standard of quality assurance calls for a better instrument management system. One that increases the efficiency of operations and provides a means to proactively fight hospital acquired infections.

The Alex Gold Instrument Tracking System incorporates web-based technology to create a full enterprise solution, allowing your healthcare facility to effectively communicate across all levels. It tracks instruments throughout the lifecycle process - from the operating room through sterilization to storage, ensuring that they have been properly cleaned, assembled and maintained.

This way, you can enhance the safety of your healthcare staff and patients through increased quality assurance and infection control measures.

Benefits of the Alex Gold Instrument Tracking System:

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Operating Room

  • Online delivery of sets to point of use
  • Identify missing instrument identifications
  • Real-time count sheets 

Decontamination

  • Capture instrument location at decontamination
  • Capture instrument arrival and departure times

Set Assembly

  • Receive cleaning, assembly and quality assurance instruction
  • Verify that instruments and quantities are correct for the set
  • Check for damaged or missing instruments
  • Check for cleanliness of instrument
  • Verify proper instruments and sets with photos

Sterilization

  • Cross references instrument set with proper sterilization method
  • Effective user feedback for placing the right set in the right sterilizer
  • Ability to record flash sterilization activity
  • Sterilization instructions
  • Avoid putting sets/instruments in the wrong sterilizer

Storage/Dispatch

  • Quickly find the locations of your instruments
  • Recognize missing instruments in sets
  • Build and track case carts from Dispatch to the OR

Return on Investment

  • Ensuring proper sterilization procedures
  • Providing real time location of trays and instruments
  • Reducing lost and damaged instruments
  • Consolidating trays
  • Improving staff productivity
  • Improving surgical tray utilization
  • Increasing OR turnover
  • Eliminating OR disruptions

Web-based Application

tgxmedical_logoThe Alex Gold Instrument Tracking System is a web-based application. Individuals at your site can access the system through Internet Explorer without having to log into a workstation that has the software pre-loaded. This means that the system is accessible from any workstation - increasing convenience and improving efficiency. Keir Surgical is the exclusive Canadian distributor of the Alex Gold Instrument Tracking System software.

For more information, please visit the TGX Medical website.