Empowering hospitals, clinics, and suppliers by integrating real-time data across the healthcare ecosystem
Supply chain management is at the core of Encode Health’s platform. By automating procurement processes, managing stock levels in real-time, and optimising inventory management, Encode Health ensures that medical supply chains run efficiently and sustainably.
Encode Health ensures full traceability for medical devices. From the manufacturer’s warehouse to the patient’s electronic health record (EHR), every device is tracked, providing real-time insights into its usage and performance.
AI is the driving force behind Encode Health’s predictive analytics. By harnessing large datasets of clinical and operational data, the platform allows healthcare providers and suppliers to make data-driven decisions, ensuring that clinical demand is met with precise medical supply availability.
Our technology is designed to seamlessly integrate with hospital systems and manufacturers’ platforms, providing a comprehensive view of medical devices and inventory across the healthcare ecosystem.
Encode Health aligns with global healthcare sustainability goals, including the NHS’s net-zero targets for carbon emissions. By streamlining the supply chain and reducing waste, we not only improve operational efficiency but also contribute to environmental sustainability. Our platform helps hospitals and manufacturers achieve green procurement and meet regulatory standards.
Encode Health is proud to partner with Oxdrugs to prevent counterfeit pharmaceuticals from entering the supply chain. By integrating Encode’s advanced tracking system with Oxdrugs’ robust security measures, we are helping to ensure that only verified, authentic medical products reach patients.
Encode Health uses advanced encryption protocols and cybersecurity measures to ensure that all data transmitted through our platform, whether it’s patient information, inventory data, or procurement details, is secure and compliant with global data protection standards, including GDPR.
Encode Health is being rolled out across multiple regions, including the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the US. The platform adapts to the specific regulatory and operational needs of each region.
Research carried out in June 2023 amongst surgeons, theatre practitioners, hospital IT managers, supply chain managers and device manufacturers demonstrate a real need for the ENCODE system.
Encode Health transforms medical supply chain management by eliminating inefficiencies, reducing waste, and ensuring seamless procurement across healthcare providers. By integrating real-time inventory tracking, automated purchasing workflows, and AI-driven demand forecasting, our platform helps hospitals, clinics, and suppliers maintain optimal stock levels without over ordering or running into shortages.
One of the key innovations of Encode Health is predictive supply chain modeling, which uses historical procurement data, treatment patterns, and patient demographics to forecast demand with unprecedented accuracy. This allows healthcare providers to reduce unnecessary spending while ensuring critical medical supplies are always available where they’re needed most.
Encode Health also facilitates end-to-end supply chain visibility, giving manufacturers, suppliers, and hospitals real-time dashboards to track stock movements, expiration dates, and delivery schedules. This eliminates the reliance on outdated spreadsheets and manual record-keeping, making supply chain operations faster, smarter, and fully transparent.
Medical device tracking is essential for patient safety, compliance, and operational efficiency, and Encode Health provides full traceability from manufacturer to patient. Every device is logged with a unique digital identity, enabling hospitals and clinics to track its lifecycle, location, and usage history in real time.
By integrating directly with electronic health records (EHRs), Encode Health ensures that each device used in a procedure is linked to the right patient, at the right time, with the correct documentation. This improves post-operative care, reduces liability risks, and simplifies regulatory reporting.
Hospitals also gain access to automated recall management, alerting them when specific devices need to be replaced due to manufacturer safety notices or regulatory updates. This level of control significantly enhances compliance with GS1, UDI, and MDR standards, ensuring that all medical devices meet strict safety and performance regulations.
At the heart of Encode Health is an AI-powered analytics engine that turns raw data into actionable insights. By analyzing patient treatment histories, supply chain fluctuations, and procurement trends, our platform predicts demand, identifies inefficiencies, and prevents stockouts before they happen.
Hospitals can use our AI-driven demand forecasting tools to optimize purchasing decisions, reducing over-ordering of expensive surgical tools and medications. Meanwhile, suppliers and manufacturers gain real-time insights into hospital needs, enabling them to proactively adjust production and delivery schedules.
Encode Health’s AI also enhances financial and operational decision-making by providing real-time dashboards that track spending patterns, waste reduction efforts, and regulatory compliance metrics. This allows administrators to justify budgets, reduce costs, and streamline supply chain operations without compromising patient care.
Encode Health was built to integrate effortlessly with existing hospital IT systems, electronic health records (EHRs), and medical device manufacturer platforms, creating a unified ecosystem for managing inventory and patient safety.
Using secure API connections, Encode Health can sync with hospital procurement software, allowing seamless ordering, tracking, and reporting without disrupting existing workflows. For manufacturers, this integration means real-time visibility into device usage, stock levels, and post-market surveillance, enhancing their ability to predict demand and ensure timely restocking.
Encode Health also supports interoperability with regulatory systems, helping hospitals meet compliance standards effortlessly. By eliminating manual data entry and paperwork, we empower healthcare professionals to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks.
Encode Health is committed to helping healthcare providers meet sustainability targets while ensuring full regulatory compliance. By eliminating medical waste, optimizing stock levels, and automating recalls, our platform contributes to the NHS’s net-zero carbon initiative and similar sustainability efforts worldwide.
One of our key sustainability initiatives is waste prevention through precise inventory tracking. Hospitals often discard millions of pounds worth of expired medical supplies annually due to poor stock management. Encode Health eliminates this by automating expiry alerts, forecasting needs, and promoting smarter procurement strategies.
Compliance is also a major focus, with Encode Health aligning with GS1, UDI, and MDR regulations to ensure that all medical devices and pharmaceuticals meet strict safety and reporting standards. Our real-time tracking capabilities provide hospitals and manufacturers with audit-ready documentation, reducing the risk of compliance violations.
NHS – Delivering a Net-Zero Health Service
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals pose a major threat to patient safety, and Encode Health is tackling this issue head-on through its partnership with Oxdrugs. By integrating our advanced tracking system with Oxdrugs’ secure authentication technologies, we help healthcare providers verify the authenticity of every drug that enters their supply chain.
Encode Health uses digital tracking to ensure that every medication can be traced from manufacturer to patient. This system eliminates the risk of fake or substandard drugs entering hospitals and pharmacies, enhancing patient safety and regulatory compliance.
Additionally, our system provides automated alerts for suspicious supply chain activity, allowing hospitals and regulatory bodies to respond quickly to potential threats. By ensuring that only legitimate, approved medications are dispensed, Encode Health is actively working to protect lives and uphold pharmaceutical integrity.
Encode Health prioritizes data security and patient confidentiality, implementing state-of-the-art encryption protocols to protect all sensitive information, including patient records, procurement data, and inventory logs.
Our platform is fully compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, and other global data protection standards, ensuring that healthcare providers can trust Encode Health to safeguard their most critical data. All information is stored using multi-factor authentication and role-based access controls to prevent unauthorized access.
To further enhance security, Encode Health uses continuous monitoring and automated threat detection to identify and mitigate potential risks in real time. This proactive approach ensures that hospitals, suppliers, and manufacturers can operate with full confidence in the integrity of their data.
European Commission – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services – HIPAA Compliance
Encode Health is rapidly expanding its footprint, adapting to regional healthcare regulations and operational modelsin markets across the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the US. Each region presents unique challenges, from compliance requirements to supply chain inefficiencies, and our platform is designed to adapt accordingly.
In the UK and Europe, Encode Health supports GS1 and MDR compliance, ensuring full traceability of medical devices in NHS and private healthcare systems. Meanwhile, in the US, our system is aligned with FDA UDI requirements, giving hospitals and suppliers seamless integration with existing regulatory frameworks.
For emerging markets in Africa and the Middle East, where supply chain visibility is often a challenge, Encode Health is bridging the gap by providing real-time stock tracking, automated restocking alerts, and fraud prevention measures. Our technology ensures that healthcare providers worldwide can operate efficiently, safely, and in compliance with local regulations.
International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF)
