OssicleOps

Audiological device fleet management and OR workflow coordination platform. Built for multi-facility ENT groups who need actual reliability, not promises.

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What is this

OssicleOps is an OR scheduling + device tracking system originally hacked together for a single-site cochlear implant practice. It has since grown into something that handles multi-facility sync, electrode array lifecycle tracking, and now OR team coordination in Georgian (the country, not the state — yes, this came up).

If you're looking for the old single-site docs, they're in docs/legacy/single-site-setup.md. Don't delete that folder, Priya still uses it.

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New in this release

Multi-facility sync (finally)

The sync layer now supports multiple facilities sharing a unified device registry. Configuration lives in config/facilities.yaml. Each facility gets its own namespace, conflicts are resolved last-write-wins for now (I know, I know — see issue #318, Dmitri has opinions).

facilities:
  - id: facility_boston
    name: "Mass ENT Associates"
    tz: America/New_York
  - id: facility_tbilisi
    name: "თბილისი სმენის კლინიკა"
    tz: Asia/Tbilisi
    or_sync_locale: ka-GE

To enable sync:

./ossicle-ops sync --multi-facility --config config/facilities.yaml

There's a known issue where the sync drops packets if both facilities push simultaneously within the same 400ms window. I have a fix drafted. It's in dev/race-condition-attempt-3.patch. Don't ask about attempts 1 and 2.

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Cochlear electrode array tracking module

Finally merged the electrode array tracking module into main. This has been sitting in feat/cochlear-tracker since March. It tracks:

• Array serial numbers and implant dates per patient (anonymized, HIPAA mode configurable)
• Impedance check logs synced from compatible programming units
• Predicted replacement windows based on manufacturer SLA data

./ossicle-ops cochlear --list-arrays --facility facility_boston

Module docs: docs/cochlear-tracker.md

⚠️ The impedance threshold defaults are calibrated for Cochlear Ltd arrays. If you're using MED-EL or AB devices, override via cochlear.array_vendor in your facility config. This burned us once. Don't let it burn you.

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Georgian-language OR synchronization layer

modules/or-sync now ships with a Georgian (ka-GE) locale for OR team coordination messages. This was requested specifically for the Tbilisi facility and I am probably the only person outside that clinic who has now read more Georgian than expected at 1am.

All user-facing OR sync strings are in locales/ka-GE.json. If something looks wrong, ask Nato (she reviews all the Georgian copy — contact in the internal wiki, not putting her email here again after the last incident).

./ossicle-ops or-sync --locale ka-GE --facility facility_tbilisi

The sync layer uses a simple pub/sub model. WebSocket endpoint documented in docs/or-sync-protocol.md.

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Integrations (14)

Up from 11 last release. New additions:

#	Integration	Status
12	Cochlear Ltd Cloud (direct array telemetry)	✅ stable
13	HL7 FHIR R4 bridge (multi-facility patient roster)	✅ stable
14	კავკასიის სამედიცინო HIS adapter	🟡 beta

Full integration list: docs/integrations.md

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Setup

git clone https://github.com/your-org/ossicle-ops.git
cd ossicle-ops
cp config/example.yaml config/local.yaml
# edit config/local.yaml — at minimum set your facility IDs and DB connection
npm install
npm run migrate
npm start

Requires Node 20+. Postgres 14+. Don't use MySQL, I mean it.

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Env vars

Variable	Required	Notes
DATABASE_URL	yes	postgres connection string
OSSICLE_SECRET	yes	JWT signing key
FACILITY_SYNC_KEY	for multi-facility	shared HMAC key across facilities
OR_SYNC_LOCALE	no	default en-US, set ka-GE for Georgian OR layer
COCHLEAR_API_KEY	no	needed for Cochlear Ltd telemetry integration

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Known issues

• Race condition in multi-facility sync (see above, #318)
• Georgian date formatting in the OR schedule view is off by one month in edge cases around month boundaries. Honestly не понимаю почти — something in the ka-GE Intl.DateTimeFormat behavior. Filed as #331.
• Cochlear tracker module is slow on facilities with >2000 arrays. Pagination is TODO.

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Contributing

Open a PR. Run npm test first. If tests are flaky just run them again, the HL7 integration tests have a timing issue that nobody has fixed since September.

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License

MIT. Do what you want. If you're using this in a clinical setting please at least read SECURITY.md first.