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What’s inside: output checking · company memory

Implant UDI checked before the theatre list closes

The question this file answersCould we say tomorrow, from the record, which batch went into which patient last month?

Fits: providers where results, scripts and traceability paperwork wait on manual filing.

Typical day

What the desk looks like today

Typical pattern, not a measured theatre — the healthcare playbook has no section on implant traceability, so no volume is stated. Stickers, the supplier's delivery note and the theatre list are reconciled after the list closes, often days later, by someone reconstructing what was used. A recall makes it a search.

What changes

What Monday looks like after

At the end of the list, the coordinator sees the two or three cases where the sticker and the list disagree, with all three records on one screen, and closes the rest without a hunt. When a recall notice arrives, the answer is a query, not a week of paper.

Typical, not a measured client result. Every figure here comes from the playbook source named below.

3 records

sticker, delivery note, theatre list on one screen — borrowed from AP three-way matching; no published figure for implants

Before: stickers, delivery notes and the theatre list disagree after the list has closed. After: the three records meet on one screen before close and only the mismatches wait for a person. Traceability admin has no published figure, and none is invented.

No published figure for this desk. The range lives on the parent file: Invoices hand-matched to POs already in the ERP →

How this file is built

There is no published benchmark for implant traceability admin. This file borrows the build, not the number, from AP three-way matching (Ardent Partners, 2023) — that figure is about invoices and stays there. The Deloitte (2023) document-processing range previously shown here is about correspondence and is not applied. Not an implant-safety KPI.

What we install

What we put in front of the systems you already run

Your EHR and theatre system stay — Epic, Cerner or the ones you run. The three-way check comes from our AP invoice matching in finance, pointed at implants:

  1. the UDI is read from the sticker scan or barcode
  2. it is compared with the supplier delivery note and with the item on the theatre list for that patient
  3. a line that agrees is written to the patient record, while a mismatch — wrong lot, unlisted device, missing delivery — is shown to the theatre coordinator before the case is closed.
What stays human — and what this will not do

Genuine mismatches. Recalls. The conversation in theatre.

Not an implant-safety KPI.

What can go wrong — and what we do about it

If supplier delivery notes arrive on paper only, the third document is a scan of variable quality and the match fails more often. UDIs printed in non-standard barcodes read poorly; an unread sticker stops the line rather than guessing. The AP three-way figure on the parent file is about invoices and is not transferred — this is traceability admin, not an implant-safety claim.

What it costs to get there

The path: free 60-second estimate → free 20-minute review → paid audit of this one process (€1.5–3K, typically two weeks) → pilot with your people in the loop (€10–20K, weeks, not quarters). No transformation programme. Prices are public, on the services page →

Scoped in the audit — the playbook has no estimate for this exact desk.

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What does this mean in euros?

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Short process file. Same build as its parent file; the playbook has no separate volume or benchmark for this desk.

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