Artman Heritage · Bratislava · Est. 1992

Medical software
pioneers since 1992.

The first system was for a single doctor’s practice. Thirty-four years later, the same discipline runs national transplant networks.

34
Years
571
Implementations
2
Countries, one team
Three colleagues standing beside an early desktop computer, Bratislava 1992.
Bratislava, 1992 · From the company archive

01 — Origin

The first
contact

Artman Technologies was founded in Bratislava on 4 November 1992. The first customers were not transplant centres. They were single-doctor practices — the ambulancie where a patient meets a physician for the first time.

Practice software is unglamorous work: patient records, the day’s list, the paperwork that makes a clinic legible to itself. Doing it well taught the company the thing that mattered later — that a national registry is only as reliable as the moment of data entry.

In the archive, that first market survives as a run of Ambulancia covers from the 1990s, each carrying the A.R.T. mark. The audience was one doctor, one computer, and a full morning of patients.

Composite of 1990s ARTMAN software boxes: Ambulancia practice modules for dermatology, surgery, internal medicine, cardiology and other specialties, plus the RCAISS antibody system and EUROCET128.
Plate — The ambulatory suite The practice software of the 1990s, by specialty: Ambulancia boxes for dermatology, surgery, internal medicine, cardiology and the rest, the hospital system NIS, the RCAISS antibody identification software — and, from 2008, EUROCET128 for tissues and cells.

02 — The record

1992 — 2026

Sixteen milestones
from the company record

  1. 1992Bratislava

    Founded

    Artman Technologies is established on 4 November. The first product is practice software for first-contact physicians.

  2. 1995Amsterdam

    RCAISS

    The red cell antibody identification system is presented at the 23rd Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, and installed in national laboratories in Cape Town, Prague, Budapest, Ljubljana and Bratislava.

    Poster for the RCAISS red cell antibody identification software system, presented at a congress in 1995.
    RCAISS at the ISBT congress, Amsterdam 1995
  3. 1996Europe

    Eurodonor

    Artman becomes technology partner in Eurodonor, the European Donor and Organ Registry funded by the European Commission: eleven countries, one information exchange for donation professionals.

    Eurodonor partner board listing eleven European countries and the European Commission.
    Eurodonor — European Donor and Organ Registry, 1996
  4. 1998/99Bristol

    UK Transplant

    A national system for Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland follows the organ from donor to recipient, with links to transplant centres across the EU. Built on internet technologies and Oracle, it is distributed outside the UK as eTransplant.

    The Artman Technologies office building in Bath, England, seen from the car park.
    Bath, England — the UK office, 1999
  5. 2000/02Oxford

    Oxford, and Donor Action

    A pilot of the IMECS medical-teacher assessment system runs at the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford. Donor Action’s hospital programme becomes a web application in five languages, used daily across participating countries.

    The UK Transplant team in red shirts on the lawn outside their offices.
    UK Transplant team, 2000
  6. 2005Belgium

    Donor Action Foundation

    A database and applications are developed and implemented for the Donor Action Foundation.

  7. 2007Brussels

    Eurocet

    Artman is technical partner to Eurocet, the European database of tissues and cells.

    Four members of the Artman team in front of European Union flags in Brussels, 2007.
    Eurocet project meeting, Brussels 2007
  8. 2011Ljubljana

    Slovenia

    A national tissue database is finished and implemented for the Republic of Slovenia.

  9. 2012/13Bristol

    Bristol, and the dementia register

    A clinical database for the University of Bristol’s dementia research group, and the Scottish Dementia Register. In 2013 the BDR applications go to Bristol for testing, and Eurocet128 — the single European coding system for tissues and cells — is delivered for testing in Brussels.

  10. 2016European Commission

    One code for Europe

    The European Commission launches the EU Coding Platform for Tissues & Cells; the Single European Code becomes applicable from April 2017.

  11. 2017Riyadh

    Riyadh

    A new contract for the Saudi national transplant system for organs is signed with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation on 23 October. The National Transplant System for tissues and cells is delivered to Slovenia Transplant.

    Four people standing outside the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation building in Riyadh.
    At the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Riyadh
  12. 2019Dubai

    Dubai

    Artman is a silver sponsor of the 15th congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement.

  13. 2020/21Saudi Arabia

    Rebuilt with clinicians

    The design, data and interface of the Saudi national transplant system are reworked with healthcare professionals. Release 21.3a is delivered in March 2021.

  14. 2022Cairo

    Cairo

    Sponsorship and a presentation at the first International Congress of the Egyptian Liver Transplant Society.

    A member of the Artman team seated in front of the Egyptian flag.
    Cairo, 2022
  15. 2024Bratislava

    Slovakia renews

    A three-year contract with the National Transplant Organisation in Slovakia for national database servicing and maintenance.

    Signing of the 2024 contract with the National Transplant Organisation in Bratislava.
    Signing with NTO Slovakia, 2024
  16. 2026Thirty-four years

    The same standard

    Founded 4 November 1992. The systems have been rewritten many times; the standard has not — a record a clinician can trust at the moment it is entered.

03 — Archive

Paper trail

Scanned from the
company files, 2018

Cover of Ambulancia dermatologa, a 1990s practice magazine, with the A.R.T. mark.
Ambulancia dermatologa — practice series, 1990s
Cover of Ambulancia chirurga, a 1990s practice magazine, with the A.R.T. mark.
Ambulancia chirurga — practice series, 1990s
Cover of Ambulancia, a 1990s practice magazine, with the A.R.T. mark.
Ambulancia — internal medicine, 1990s
Cover of Ambulancia, a 1990s practice magazine, with the A.R.T. mark.
Ambulancia — psychology, 1990s

Documents

Letters, programmes and brochures from the same period are held in the archive — including the European Transplant Coordinators Organisation’s 2001 invitation to Roman Benedek to present in Ljubljana, and the EUROCET 2008 brochure on the European code for tissues and cells.

04 — Where the work went

On the road

Three colleagues sitting on a bench in New Orleans, 1996.
New Orleans1996
A colleague beside a canal and windmill in Leiden, 2002.
Leiden2002
The team walking in a park in Shiraz, 2008.
Shiraz2008
A congress hall in Buenos Aires during the 2011 organ donation congress.
Buenos Aires2011
Paper-cut illustration: a desktop computer, patient records, a server, a hospital and a heart with a seedling, all linked by one crimson ribbon.
Campaign artwork · 2026 One ribbon from the doctor’s desk to the national network: the whole of the heritage in a single line.

The fastest Matching Run I have seen so far. Impressive performance.

Sue Falvey Duty Office Manager · Blood and Transplant NHS, United Kingdom
Years
34
Implementations
571
Founded
1992

The next chapter

Thirty-four years in.
The next system is national.

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