--- title: blog (5) description: The ScanCARE Blog provides an abundance of information on all things relating to Surgical Instrument Tracking (5) --- # ScanCARE Blog Browse by All AS/NZS4187 Surgical Instruments standards Product Families Paperless Patient Records Medical Records Management cssd Surgical Instrument Tracking Digital Medical Records Medical Assets UDI AS 5369:2023 AS5369 Instrument Level Tracking QuickShot Tray Level Tracking AS 5369 AS/NZS 4187 AS/NZS 4815 Reprocessing medical devices Sterilisation standards Australia TGA ![Here's how to implement AS2828.1 compliant documents](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/medico_ipad.png) [standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) AS2828.1 specifies [the requirements](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/a-quick-guide-to-as2828-requirements-for-digital-medical-records) for the physical aspects of health records' size, quality, layout, colour, order of filing and record cover. Although it appears to apply exclusively to paper based health records, AS2828.1 needs to be taken into account for health records that have been digitised from paper as well as Electronic health records. ![Surgical instrument marking and managing risk.](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/surgeon_handling_instrument.jpg) [Surgical Instruments](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/surgical-instruments) ## Infection control and laser etching medical instruments. In my blog [What you need to know about Surgical Instrument Direct Part Marking (DPM)](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-surgical-instrument-direct-part-marking-dpm), I wrote about the benefits of surgical instrument marking.  I also touched on some lesser known but important aspects that need to be considered. ![5 Tips for Setting Up Surgical Instrument Tracking Naming Conventions](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Screen_Shot_2015-12-15_at_12.03.04_PM-1.png?t=1450144446182&width=532) [Surgical Instruments](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/surgical-instruments) The ability to quickly retrieve and return of instruments is one of the important benefits that a surgical insrument tracking solution can provide. If you are considering an instrument tracking solution, then the tips in this blog will hopefully make your life easier down the track. ![What you need to know about Surgical Instrument Marking](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/Screen_Shot_2015-12-14_at_3.19.08_PM.png) [Surgical Instruments](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/surgical-instruments) **Introduction** Just about everyone these days wants their surgical instruments etched with 2D data matrix barcodes. There are plenty of benefits to be gained from doing so. It speeds up the instrument assembly process and reduces the need for your people to memorise instrument names. The assembly process becomes very simple. Team members scan a barcode on an instrument and the computer tells them if it’s the right one or not and when the tray is complete.   ![How to categorize a Cataract Tray for Ophthalmic Centres/Ophthamology](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/Screen_Shot_2015-10-28_at_10.18.59_AM.png) [standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) [AS/NZS4187](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/as-nzs4187) ### Surgical Instrument Product Families for Ophthalmologists The new version of AS/NZS 4187 released on the 15th December last year brought some very significant changes to the previous standard. One of the most significant changes is the standards reference to Product Families. In [a previous blog](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/how-to-make-sense-of-the-as4187-categorisation-of-instrument-product-families), I provided an overview of *ISO/TS 17665-3:2013 - Sterilization of health care products - Moist heat - Part 3: Guidance on the designation of a medical device to a product family and processing category for steam sterilization.* Today I will get into the specifics of how to apply the standard to a Cataract Tray. Let's take a look at how to do that. ![AS4187 or 4185? Infection control standards for dental practitioners?](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/Star_Onboarding_Title_Page.jpg) [standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) [AS/NZS4187](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/as-nzs4187) If you’re a member of the Dental Health community you’re probably aware that a lot has happened in the last 12 months. I am referring to infection control breaches that have happened in New South Wales. Around the same time two documents were released that have the express purpose of preventing such issues.   They are: - AS4187 2014 - The Australian Dental Association Guidelines for Infection Control Third Edition 2015. Infection Control has become a hot topic and the Australian Dental Board's release of [an open letter](http://www.dentalboard.gov.au/News/2015-07-16-practitioners-infection-control-obligations.aspx)  dated 16th July 2015 reminding Dental Practitioners of their Infection control obligations under the National Law is testament to that. With this blog, I will try to provide some guidance through the maze of standards and guidelines and provide dental practitioners with a list of relevant documentation for further reading. ![Paper based medical records - the elephant in the room](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/Elephant.jpg) [Paperless Patient Records](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/paperless-patient-records) Healthcare associated infection can be one of the biggest challenges faced by a health care facility.  ![Here is why AS2828 is relevant for digital patient records](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/colour_coded_records.jpg) [Medical Records Management](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/medical-records-management) [standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) If you are considering a digital patient records system, it may well be worth looking to see that the system is AS2828 compliant. Why, you ask? After all [AS2828 is about paper medical records](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/a-quick-guide-to-as2828-requirements-for-digital-medical-records) right? Well...not exactly. ![Confused?  How to make sense of Paperless Medical Records Solutions](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/EMR_in_EHR.png) [Paperless Patient Records](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/paperless-patient-records) EMR, EHR, PCEHR, eHealth – what’s it all mean? When it comes to naming computerised medical record solutions, the common approach, is to give them an acronym, or at the very least get the letter ‘e’ in there somewhere. The result is confusion. I am frequently in conversations with people who randomly interchange EMR with EHR, eHealth with PCEHR and Paperless Medical Records with Digital Documents. And who can blame them?  It’s ambiguous and a conversation like that generally results in a headache. In this post I hope to shed more light on what the terms all mean and bring it back to plain language. ![5 Reasons to consider cloud-based paperless medical records systems](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/laptop_feet_up.png) [Paperless Patient Records](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/paperless-patient-records) Thinking about[ going paperless in your medical practice?](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/how-to-transition-to-paperless-medical-records-systems.-3-tips) One of the first big decisions you will be confronted with is whether to choose a web-based solution or a desktop application installed locally on your desktop computer. [ Prev ](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/4) [3](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/3) [4](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/4) [5](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/5) [6](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/6) [7](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/7) [ Next ](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/page/6)