A surgical logbook you fill in while the case is fresh.
Opus codes each case with SNOMED CT as you log it, keeps it encrypted on your phone, and lays it out for the logbooks and registries you report to.
For iPhone · private beta on TestFlight · New Zealand and Australia · built by a Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon
Logging
A case, start to save.
Describe the injury with chips and the diagnosis arrives coded, with the operations usually recorded for it. Recorded from the app on an iPhone: a ring-finger metacarpal fracture plated, about 98 seconds at reading pace, never sped up.
1 / 10Identifier, date of birth, a name, sex and ethnicity. The identifier field is labelled NHI or URN by your country of practice; name and date of birth are optional and stay encrypted on the phone.
Team
One logs. The team confirms.
One member of the operating team logs the case and tags the others. Each receives it end-to-end encrypted, confirms they were there, and a senior colleague attests the role and supervision per procedure. The export names who attested.
Three people in theatre, one phone out. The registrar logs the case and tags the two colleagues with the role each played.
RegistrarSurgeon
RegistrarFirst assistant
ConsultantSupervisor
What this gives you One case typed, by one person, once.
Scenes advance on their own; choose one to stop.
Your data
The server never holds readable patient data.
The logbook lives on your phone, encrypted. A shared case is sealed to your colleague's own devices before it leaves; assessments are blinded; a backup is sealed to a Recovery Key only you hold. Scene by scene, with what the server can read.
A case is saved. Nothing leaves the phone.
Your phone
- Logbook: cases, outcomes, photos
- Search index of patient identifiers
Opus server
- Your account: email, name, hospitals, career stage
- Your colleague list
- Device public keys
Colleague's phone
- Nothing about this case
Nothing moves.
What the server can read Your account and colleague list. No case, no patient, no photo.
Scenes advance on their own; choose one to stop.
Where your data lives → · Security and privacy, file by file →
Logbooks and registries
One case, every logbook.
The record you made once is laid out for 7 training-body formats and 3 registries, in each one's own fields and values. For RACS MALT, 35 of 47 applicable fields are prepared.
Left hand, punch. Closed, simple shaft fracture of the fifth metacarpal, open reduction and a straight 1.5 mm plate; SET 3 trainee as surgeon with the consultant scrubbed.
Training bodies
RACS MALT (Plastics)
Laid out for: RACS Morbidity Audit Logbook Tool (MALT), list of fields and values, September 2022
- Procedure Name (suggested)
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Final diagnosis (suggested)
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- Level of supervision
- Mentor Scrubbed
- Primary Surgeon
- Yes
- MALT Code
- MS
13 fields left blank for this case.
RACS JDocs
Laid out for: RACS JDocs operative logbook columns
- Procedure
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Diagnosis
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- JDocs Role
- Supervised
- Urgency
- Acute
- Diagnosis SNOMED
- 208393000
UK ISCP eLogbook
Laid out for: UK ISCP eLogbook import format
- Procedure
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Diagnosis
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- Supervision Code
- S-TS
- Admission Type
- Emergency
- Diagnosis SNOMED
- 208393000
2 fields left blank for this case.
ACGME Case Log
Laid out for: ACGME Case Log System fields
- Procedure
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Diagnosis
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- ACGME Role
- SC
- Diagnosis SNOMED
- 208393000
- Procedure SNOMED
- 608784006
Weiterbildung OP-Katalog (DE)
Laid out for: Operationskatalog of the German Weiterbildungsordnung
- Procedure
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Diagnosis
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- Diagnosis SNOMED
- 208393000
- Procedure SNOMED
- 608784006
- Laterality
- Left
1 field left blank for this case.
SIWF eLogbuch (CH)
Laid out for: SIWF operative logbook, Switzerland
- Procedure
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Diagnosis
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- Diagnosis SNOMED
- 208393000
- Procedure SNOMED
- 608784006
- Laterality
- Left
EBOPRAS Operative Logprovisional mapping
Laid out for: EBOPRAS operative log
- Procedure
- Metacarpal fracture ORIF
- Diagnosis
- Closed fracture of MC V shaft (AO: 77.5.2A)
- Role
- Operator (supervised)
- Diagnosis SNOMED
- 208393000
- Procedure SNOMED
- 608784006
Registries
Breast Device Registry
Laid out for: Breast device registry minimum dataset
Not included. Only implant-bearing breast cases are included.
Burns Registry
Laid out for: Burns registry minimum dataset
Not included. Only cases with a burns assessment are included.
Audits
Free Flap Audit
Laid out for: Free-flap audit dataset
Not included. Only procedures tagged as free flaps are included.
- Structured diagnoses
- 509
- Procedures
- 865
- SNOMED CT concepts
- 1006
- Subspecialties
- 11
- Staging systems
- 29
- Report formats
- 10
- Hospitals, NZ and AU
- 164
- Version
- 2.40.0
Counted from the app's own code at each build, never typed in.
Where it is
Private beta, built by a surgeon.
Opus is written by a Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon in New Zealand and used by surgeons on TestFlight in New Zealand and Australia. It is a documentation tool: it records what you did and gives no treatment advice. The company behind it and its legal review are in progress, and that is said here rather than implied otherwise.
Every report format is laid out from a published field list or template. Opus is independent of the colleges and societies whose layouts it produces.