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11. SYSTEM GLOSSARY
Activity
An activity can be performed on individual articles or article sets. Activities are usually part of one or more activity
processes, but they can also be configured without a process.
Article
An article is a taggable dental instrument, material or container. A tag is an identifier, which can be e.g. RFID,
barcode or some other unique identifier.
Article group
Articles can belong to only one article group. Groups are used to separate different types of articles, e.g.
diagnostic and restoration instruments. Article group is automatically created for LM product but needs to be
created 3rd party tagged products manually.
Article type
Article type contains code, type and manufacture details of article. Article type is automatically created for LM
products but needs to be created 3rd party tagged products manually.
Article type identifier
Article type identifier used only with the type tag log feature. The identifier defines the article type (e.g. barcodes)
if some of articles on the clinic do not have unique RFID tag.
Check out restriction
Restrictive process definition which limits for the articles being checked out by a user group. Checkouts within
the grace period are not counted towards the limit.
Container
A container is a cassette. Use of instrument cassettes provides an efficient and safe way to process, sterilize
and organize instruments in dental clinic by minimizing manual handling of individual instruments and
rationalizing the maintenance process.
Container can be also e.g. requisition sheet when tracking article set of materials.
Encounter
Patient appointment at the clinic.
Encounter policy
The policy defines how to link between LM DTS
TM
and external patient treatment system is generated.
Error
If a process is set for a group and an activity is performed in violation of the process rules, errors will be
displayed on the reader. Most of the errors can be forced. However you have to be at least “forcing user”-level
user to force the error.
HID mode
When the reader is in HID (Hardware Interface Device) mode, it is connected to a computer. In HID mode,
unknown articles, such as those from a manufacturer other than LM-Instruments Oy, may be added to the
system.
Instrument
An instrument is the most typical type of article.
