Feel like you’re spinning in circles when IPAC and record keeping unite? The union of IPAC and record keeping should be just that…a union, not a collision or an endless chore. There are two aspects to this union: the office’s safeguards and client safety. This involves two locations, the reprocessing area where the act of QA testing unfolds and the operatory. Recording outcomes of sterilization is not limited to the log sheets in the reprocessing area but also includes the reporting of package data having passed sterilization in client records. That is a lot of packages to record! As no office has the luxury of time, a system is required to effectively manage the data entry in both these areas of the office. A system is also needed to efficiently perform a recall of packages and/or a client tracing of specific packages should there be a sterilization failure.