One standard, tuned to your speciality.
Tessa is practice management software that connects the clinical decision to the business of medicine that follows it. Its modules carry the practice through the Control Journey, from a call in the consulting room to a closed, reconciled, compliant record.
What Tessa does, module by module.
Each module does one job, and they share one standard and one record, so nothing is re-keyed as the work moves through the practice. Six are live today, and more are coming soon.
Diary
LiveBookings, arrivals and the day's flow, for the rooms team.
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Reception books through a guided booking flow, sees who has arrived and who is waiting, and can mark when the clinician is running late.
Clinical record
LiveThe patient's history, notes and diagnoses in one record, structured for the speciality.
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Allergies, medicines and diagnoses coded to ICD-10 sit beside the consultation note. In obstetrics and gynaecology, the record follows the pregnancy and the gynaecological history.
Results
LiveLab and radiology results in one list, reviewed and filed to the record.
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Results wait in one list until a clinician has reviewed them. Lab and radiology requests print ready to send, each with a QR code.
Scripts and letters
LivePrescriptions, sick notes and referral letters, ready to print.
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Each script carries a QR code the pharmacy can scan.
Documents
LiveUploaded documents and the paper file, kept with the patient's record.
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Letters, reports and scanned pages are uploaded and opened from the record, so the history behind a decision is at hand.
Dashboard
LiveThe clinician's home screen and watchlist for the day.
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It brings the patients who need attention onto one screen.
Billing and claims
Coming soonInvoices and medical aid claims, prepared from the visit.
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Billing lines are drawn from the booking and the consultation, so the invoice starts from the visit rather than a blank form. Benefit checks and claims through a switching house come with the claims add-on.
Reminders and messages
Coming soonAppointment reminders, messages and a patient portal.
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Patients can confirm their appointment and complete their details and consent forms before they arrive.
Lab results automation
Coming soonResults from the laboratory, filed to the record without re-keying.
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Electronic lab orders and results connect the practice to the laboratory, so a result arrives where the clinician will look for it.
Consultation to claim, in one sequence.
Tessa follows the natural order of the practice. Each step closes the one before it, so the work of the practice closes itself rather than waiting to be chased.
The clinical and administrative halves are shaped around each other, and around the way your speciality actually works. The software fits the practice, never the other way around.
The decision is made
The clinician records the consultation in the flow of the visit, in the structure of the speciality. The record is built around how the field actually works rather than a generic template.
The claim is prepared
In the same moment, coding and billing are prepared from the decision itself. Because the claim is captured while the clinical context is open, it is ready to submit rather than reconstructed later from memory or a scribbled note.
The follow-up is held
Authorisations, results and follow-ups are tracked and held open until each one closes. Nothing that follows the decision is left to a diary entry or a mental note; the task stays visible until it is done.
The record reconciles
The practice sees a closed, reconciled, compliant record. The clinical decision and its administrative half meet in one place, and the manager has a single view of what is settled and what still needs action.
The journey closes itself
With each step closing the one before it, the Control Journey completes without a separate catch-up pass. The practice ends the day with its records reconciled rather than a backlog waiting for the next morning.
One product, five specialities.
Each edition carries the Tessa name and its own discipline colour on the orbiting dot. The ring stays constant while the dot carries the discipline.
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Obstetrics and gynaecology is live now; the other four are coming soon.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Live nowAnaesthesiology
Coming soonPhysician
Coming soonOrthopaedics
Coming soonOphthalmology
Coming soonThe engine behind the platform.
TessaMed, powered by Satchel and Boot (Pty) Ltd. The platform is one part of a wider engine that carries a practice from paper to a running system and keeps it running.
Clinical direction comes from practising clinicians. Each speciality is shaped alongside clinicians who work in that field every day, so every edition is informed by the people who use it.
| Element | What it brings |
|---|---|
| Platform | The modules on one standard, tuned to each speciality and built around the way the practice works. |
| Data engineering | Records digitised, indexed and connected, so the history behind a decision is present at the point of care. |
| Delivery discipline | A defined sequence from paper to a running practice, held to the single Tessa standard. |
| On-site onboarding | Dedicated Satchel and Boot specialists on site, moving the practice onto Tessa in person. |
See Tessa in your speciality.
Book a demo and we will walk the Control Journey through your workflow, from the consulting room to a reconciled record. The licence is flat across practice type and size.