Since our inception Censis Technologies has taken pride in being the market innovator for surgical instrument management.  Censis was the first Company to perfect individual instrument management and now has over 100 facilities utilizing Censitrac at the individual instrument level.  To support this functionality we have developed instrument marking techniques that we believe are as close as possible to providing a "permanent" mark. 
 
In addition our joint development efforts with Steris resulted in Censitrac being  the only software capable of a true electronic interface to Steris equipment in the SPD as well as the OR.
 
Our dedication to being the market innovator is a continuing effort.  In the near future we will be releasing a new product which will provide management tools for endoscope reprocessing.  This product will employ detailed functionality such as access to comprehensive reprocessing instructions; track receipt, testing and disinfectant processing by individual scope; as well as the ability to record the particular case in which a particular scope is utilized. 
 
As another example of our innovative efforts we will soon be deploying the tracking of equipment and surgical instrument trays utilizing RFID technology at a client's facility.  I will provide details about this functionality in a future newsletter.
 
With our web based delivery model we are able to support our customers with little or no involvement from the facilities' IT departments.  We have 3 or more new releases each year and since all of our clients are running the same software, system maintenance for each facility is seamless.  At Censis we remain committed to bringing our clients the most robust and innovative instrument management system available while ensuring that the system remains flexible and extremely user friendly.
     

Randy Smith
President / CEO
Censis Technologies
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Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, NV, is the location of this year's 22nd annual Managing Today's OR Suite (MTORS) Conference on October 7th and 8th.  This year, MTORS will include the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Leadership Specialty Assembly meeting. To meet your goal of delivering the right instrument to the right patient at the right time, suggest to your OR leadership that they can learn more about the benefits of Censitrac® at this year's conference by visiting the Censis booth.  We are located in booth number 513, right beside the STERIS® booth.
 
The OR staff's acceptance and usage of Censitrac® is a critical part of knowing where certain trays and surgical instrumentation are located within the Perioperative loop thus increasing the chances for patient safety and surgeon satisfaction.
 
Censitrac®, and its ability to store all sterilization records electronically both in the OR and CS, remains the only instrument management application capable of eliminating all manual documentation associated with a load and replacing it with a complete electronic sterilization management system. Imagine being able to demonstrate to your OR department the time savings associated with connecting the OR sterilizers through "Flash Tracker" to the Censitrac® application.

 

If you are not taking advantage of this huge benefit, please contact our Help Desk or your Censis sales representative at 888-877-3010 Opt 2, for a full electronic record keeping demonstration.

 

Please send this to your OR leadership who might be attending this show.
 

 "In the past we assembled instruments based on a document that we called a count sheet," said Pat Stefanik, Registered Nurse and Central Sterile Manager at Saint Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee. "This task was complicated by the wide range of individual preferences among the different surgeons and by the large number of non-traditional instruments that are used by our surgeons." 

 

"From the first day that we started using Censitrac® we saw a substantial reduction in the number of errors," Stefanik said. "Just as important, we now know where every instrument set is located. Sometimes the OR will call and say that an instrument is missing. In most cases, I will look it up in Censitrac® and discover that it was scanned and put into the set that was sent to the OR. I will let the OR know and in most cases they will look around and find it in the OR." 
 

Pat Stefanik, RN
Nursing Manager Surgical Services

 

Dorothy Brown, a Central Sterile technician at St.Thomas Hospital, scans instruments while assembling her tray in Censitrac®.

To date we have marked over 1,000,000+ instruments in over 80 hospitals across the US and abroad.  We have expanded our marking technology to now include the capability of chemically etching verbiage to the instrument as well as the data matrix.  If you would like to order these stencils below or have specific verbiage that you would like to have custom made, please call the Help Desk at 888-877-3010 Opt #1 and request more information. 

   

        
 

For a comprehensive list of supplies and all your purchasing needs - please contact Brian Mills  

 

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