Blood Bank Information System

Blood Bank Information System ‘e-AIMA’ supports all the operational needs of blood banks. ‘e-AIMA’ manages all information related to every aspect of blood banks. The support includes all the labs procedures like donor record administration, management of haematology and immunology test, component management, cross matching, blood issue, patient management, requests for blood, inventory and finally transfusion.

Overview

 Blood Bank Information System ‘e-AIMA’ is a full featured application with enhanced customization capabilities. It allows a flexible and rapid system implementation at any blood bank. ‘e-AIMA’ utilizes features such as barcode technology and connectivity to diagnostic devices. So, the system organizes and automates the blood bank procedures providing the maximum safety and security control points.

Being well-designed and implemented blood bank information system, tailored toward the specific workflows of a blood bank – blood transfusion division of a Hospital, will enable increased efficiency, regulatory compliance, and a complete report on blood products. In addition the system that is integrated with laboratory instruments allows for automated processes and a reduction in errors associated with manual data entry.

 

Synoptic

Reference

of Blood Bank

Procedures  

 

  • Blood and Blood Component Collection
  • Volunteer Blood Donor Registration
  • Blood Collection Registration
  • Questionnaire Completion
  • Pending Questionnaire review
  • Blood Unit Traceability
  • Search – Find – Identify Blood Donor
  • Medical History
  • Eligibility Criteria
  • Acceptance – Rejection
  • Designation of Blood Donor Selection Officer
  • Blood Collection
  • Data registration of Blood Collection
  • Centrifugation
  • Blood Group
  • Molecular Testing
  • Serological Testing
  • Patient Laboratory Testing – Determinations
  • History of Reactions – Allergies
  • Donor & Recipient Compatibility –Crossmatching
  • Blood / Derivatives Transfusion
  • Emergency Transfusion
  • Adverse Reactions
  • Therapeutic Management
  • Collection and Maintenance of Blood Derivatives Units
  • Storage – Stability
  • Coverages
  • Grants
  • Loans – Returns
  • Forms Update
  • Electronic Records Update

Certifications

Medical Information Systems

ISO 9001

Medical Information Systems

ISO 27001

Ιατρικά Πληροφοριακά Συστήματα

ISO 1348

Medical Information Systems

ISO 45001

Medical Information Systems

ISO 27799

Ιατρικά Πληροφοριακά Συστήματα

ISO 13485

The advanced and complex procedures of Blood Donation departments require deep knowledge and experience as well as particularly extensive and versatile software.

Blood Bank Information System
Features

  • Advanced and intelligent data entry for completing the donor form.
  • Component creation before or after the serology test.
  • Notification of donor’s historical medical and blood donation records during donor registration.
  • Fully customisable donor form, based on the requirements of each blood bank and National standards
  • Issue of donor magnetic card.
  • Automatic generation of components and calculation of expiry date.
  • Blockinng of all components until the serology test is completed.
  • Automatic generation of each component label.
  • Multiple cross-match for components.
  • Failed cross-matches or expired units are blocked for transfusion.
  • Real time communication with a HIS and LIS.
  • Automatic retrieval of patient information from the HIS and manual entry of them, also.
  • Keeps track of all patients’ transfusions and reactions history.
  • e-AIMA incorporates powerful functionalities for the required blood exams.
  • Efficient storage and retrieval of patient’s tests results.
  • Performs haematology, immunology, ABO and serology tests both on units and donors.
  • Management of enquiries for transfusion, manually or automatically (via e-AIMA clinics interface module).
  • Search for compatible units performing multiple cross match tests. 
  • Capability to reserve units for more than one patient.
  • Label printing for cross matched units.
  • Registration of medical staff assigned with the transfusion, begin and end time of transfusion and reactions.
  • Produced reports include: adverse reaction report, blood bag reports, clinics enquiries, inventories, donors and patients & donnors lists, etc.
  • Production of documents required by legislation.
  • Includes a powerful module for generating reports based on user criteria.
  • Exporting of all reports in Excel or pdf format.
  • Blood Donation Camp, Management and Reporting.
  • Sending and receiving of blood units and components among groups of hospitals blood banks.
  • Notification for expired or unsuitable blood units (less quantity, reactive, clotting, haemolysis, positive serology tests).
  • Vein to vein traceability.
  • Remote access capability via Internet.
  • Supports unlimited number of users, each with a different level of access and different responsibilities.
  • Access privileges per user, role based authority, digital signatures and user activity log files.
  • Capability to use RFID bracelets for user identification and digital signature.
  • Option for enumeration of units based on ISBT 128 standards
  • Consolidation of blood bank facilities and available resources.
  • Improves staff efficiency and work volumes by automating the daily workflow.
  • Eliminates time-intensive work associated with managing paperwork.
  • Full traceability of all operations in the blood bank.
  • Provision of required security levels and control/approval points.
  • Integration with LIS and HIS systems.

Detailed Feature List

  • It has the ability to interface and interoperability with the corresponding Laboratory Information Systems and Hospital Information Systems.
  • It supports the use of a smart card for blood donors
  • It offers independence of system operation for each Hospital
  • It supports the ability of Central Overview at a central level.
  • It supports user roles and rights at the application level.
  • It offers an interface with the Central Blood Bank from mobile units at remote locations.
  • It has the ability to issue a referral order for tests at geographically remote units.
  • It has the ability to communicate with other information systems.
  • It has the ability to access the results, only to authorized users from any point of the network (laboratory, other point of the Hospital). The authorization policy is defined to be in line with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Regulation
  • Supports compliance with both legislation and relevant EU directives.
  • Covers the following functions and activities:
      Schedule mobile blood drive
      Blood donor management
      Blood donor groups management
      Unit credits for blood donors and blood donor groups
      Blood donation registration
      Blood and blood product movement within/outside the hospital
      Laboratory tests of blood units
      Isolation and disposal of unsuitable blood units
      Blood processing
      Traceability
      Blood stock with the necessary categorization
      Clinic requirements
      Patient history
      Compatibility check (Cross-matching)
      Transfusions
      Reports
  • Offers customization, allowing the system administrator to easily adapt to user needs.
  • Supports interconnectivity of information about blood donors, blood and patients
  • Records all important information from the moment of selection and entry of blood donor data to blood collection and transfusion to patients.
  • Provides the ability to create a referral form for tests.
  • Includes a comprehensive barcode reading system, as well as label printing for both samples and units in blood and its derivatives.
  • Provides management of prospective blood donors to meet the needs of field trips.
  • Supports electronic correspondence with registered blood donors.
  • Provides the ability to create a selection list of potential prospective blood donors.
  • Provides the ability to register a changing list of eligibility criteria for selecting a prospective blood donor (with parameter selection).
  • Allows users to easily search for data on each blood donor so that their identity and suitability are confirmed before each blood donation.
  • It maintains a record of the reasons that made the blood donor temporarily or permanently unavailable/suitable, which will be accessible to authorized users only, in order to protect personal data.
  • It has the ability to provide necessary information on previous blood donation history, including possible blood donor problems and adverse reactions.
  • It has the ability to manage blood collection types and derivatives.
  • It maintains a historical record of activities of blood donor groups (associations, etc.).
  • It supports the planning of trips of mobile blood donation units.
  • It maintains a record of all blood donations.
  • All operations on each blood unit are monitored from the moment of blood collection until the moment of transfusion to a patient.
  • When registering each blood donation, it automatically gives a unique registration number, the day and time of each blood collection, the quantity, and the duration are recorded.
  • Allows selection of reasons for postponing or canceling blood collection.
  • Supports the ability to import test results either automatically from the laboratory or from the blood donation, upon receipt of results from laboratory analysts.
  • Ability to record results for the following tests:
      Blood Donors,
      Blood Group,
      RHESUS Factor,
      RHESUS and Kell Phenotype,
      Syphilis,
      Hepatitis B,
      HbsAg,
      Hepatitis C (Anti-HCV),
      HIV Antibodies (1 and 2),
      HTLV Antibodies (1 and 2),
      Malaria Antibodies,
      CMVM Antibodies,
      HBV-DNA,
      HCV-RNA,
      HIV-RNA
  • Supports internal Quality Control (HbsAg, anti-HCV, anti-HIV, anti-HTLV, syphilis) with independent internal control
  • Supports external Quality Control (Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV infection, ABO group direct-reverse Rhesus-D, crude anti-erythrocyte antibody test, compatibility test, direct antispherin test serum (Coombs)
  • Reagent batch validation
  • Ability to add other optional tests
  • Has the ability to record the completion of the process for each unit.
  • Ensures that each blood donor and unit information is accessible according to roles and access security.
  • Supports the ability to create reports for the presence of antibodies of particular importance (when legally permitted since this is a very serious data protection issue).
  • Allows in urgent cases, when necessary, to start the tests before all the details of the blood collection are entered into the system.
  • Offers plasma fractionation
  • Recording of all stages of bottle and derivative processing.
  • Supports the laboratory procedures of Immunohematological and Serological testing.
  • Supports the ability to add new serological profiles and phenotypes.
  • Supports blood compatibility check for the patient for whom the blood is intended.
  • Manages postponements and cancellations.
  • Offers management of requests for blood products.
  • Keeps the status of the inventory and orders available for all areas at each workstation.
  • It offers management of the stock of blood units and their derivatives in order to serve the needs of all patients at any time.
  • It has the ability to warn about the minimum allowable stock.
  • It supports the procedures related to the receipt of blood and its derivatives and sending between different Health Units.
  • It supports virtual receipts or shipments of bottles between different Health Units.
  • It supports the automatic matching of virtual movements to real ones when they are registered (unit loan cases).
  • It provides a tool for creating reports and the ability to submit queries.
  • It provides information for each blood unit that has been reserved for a specific patient.
  • It has the ability to record, analyze and print a report on the results of the transfusion.
  • It provides the ability to support autologous transfusion.
  • It records all data of autologous blood collection.
  • It has the ability to report on the availability of autologous blood quantities.
  • Maintains questionnaires of blood donor
  • Monitors the balance of units in the Blood Bank in total and by blood donor, patient, other health unit.
  • Ability to perform clinical and laboratory monitoring of individuals with homozygous Mediterranean Anemia and intermediate Mediterranean Anemia and regular blood transfusions
  • Ability to record data related to Blood Donor Counseling for communicable diseases
  • Ability to monitor laboratory tests for the prevention of Mediterranean Anemia and hemoglobinopathies
  • Ability to include a powerful reporting tool based on a graphical work environment.
  • It has the ability to produce reports with:
      Information for each specific blood collection
      Blood products obtained from each blood collection
      Detailed descriptions for each blood derivative
      Blood donor eligibility
      Microbiological results
      Blood group information
      Virological test information
      Correspondence
      Autotransfusions
      Plasmapheresis
      Issuing reports for individuals, for groups, and organizations
  • It has the ability to produce statistical reports for the activities developed by blood banks.
  • Maintaining all specified legal books and forms.
  • Production of the required Statistical reports of blood collections and infections found.
  • Contains functions for the management of blood donor associations and blood collection excursions.
  • Supports the sending and receiving of blood units and derivatives between hospital blood donations.
  • Notifies the expiration or unsuitability of a blood unit (less quantity, reactive, coagulation, hemolysis, positive serological tests) and monitors its destruction.
  • Records all user actions and supports full traceability.
  • Offers remote access via the Internet.
  • Supports users with different responsibilities, access levels and authorization.
  • Integrates access rights per user, based on user roles
  • Supports digital signatures as well as user activity logs.
  • Supports RFID bracelets, for the identification of users and their digital signature.
  • Prints blood unit labels based on ISBT 128 barcoding system.

 

‘e-AIMA’ is supported by IT engineers, with an extensive expertise and in-depth knowledge of medical informatics. This guarantees unrivalled implementation, training and technical assistance services.

Benefits of Blood Bank Information System

  • Getting rid of manual procedures.
  • Minimization of probability of error.
  • More precise and effective Information retrieval.
  • Inventory control using the FIFO (First-In-First-Out) concept.
  • Reports for any time period of donors, seekers, total consumption of the blood units and overall report.
  • Designation of blood in demand but rarely available and which blood group is rarely in demand but plenty in stock.
  • Help to identify the main cause for requirement of blood units.
  • Identification of which doctor has recommended the blood units.
  • Provision of the discarded blood units list and the relative reason.
  • Maintain an inventory and the total number of units of a particular blood group.
  • Information about units that become unhealthy due to technical fault.
  • Check if the replacement donor has actually donated the blood or not.
  • Generation of the unique identification number to the donor
  • Proposal of the blood unit bags IDs.
  • Unit labeling based on ISBT 128
  • Support blood donation camp information upload.
'e-AIMA' Eliminates Transfusion Errors

‘Patient Safety’, Blood Bank Information System’s module, makes patients’ transfusions safer by reducing the possibility of errors. It manages all transfusions at the OR and facilitates best practices. It reduces errors, improves quality of care, streamlines clinical workflows and delivers potential cost savings. Based on the cross-matching results, the ‘Patient Safety’ module is able to validate the right blood bag for the right patient.

Blood Bank Information System

Step 1 : Scan blood bag’s barcode using your mobile phone
Blood Bank Information System

Step 2 : Scan the patient’s id wristband.

The green check on the phone’s screen, assures patient – unit compatibility.

The red ‘X’, stops transfusion immediately, preventing any severe situation.

Improving

Quality

Eliminating errors is the fundamental goal of all health professionals in the Hospital environment. Through the ‘Patient Safety’ software platform, our solution brings this to the forefront. Blood Bank Information System ‘e-AIMA’ provides direct connection with the blood orders and the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR). 

As a result the clinical integration solution connects the laboratory validated blood components to the receiver patient. In addition it streamlines the workflow and helps the improvement of patient safety while providing measurable financial benefits. In order to achieve an advanced Transfusion Safety, the corresponding software module utilizes internal checks to:

  • Create color-coded flags that signal information which should be reviewed.
  • Display notifications when information is incorrect.
  • Ensure users cannot proceed if the information is missing.
  • Help prevent transfusing the wrong product with product safety checks.
  • Automated safety checks stop users from moving to the next screen until the risk is resolved.

‘Patient Safety’ 

is designed 

to be integrated

in EMR

Automated safety check stops user procceedings until the risk is resolved. Eliminating errors is the fundamental goal of all health professionals in the Hospital environment. Through the ‘Patient Safety’ software, our solution brings this to the forefront, providing direct connection to blood order and  patient’s electronic medical record (EMR).

As a result, the clinical integration solution checks the matching of the laboratory validated blood components that found compatible to  patient. In addition, it streamlines the workflow and helps the improvement of patient safety while providing measurable financial benefits. In order to achieve an advanced Transfusion Safety, the corresponding software module utilizes internal checks to:

  • Create color-coded flags that signal information which should be reviewed.
  • Ensure users cannot proceed if the information is missing.

  • Help prevent transfusing the wrong product with product safety checks.

  • Display notifications when information is incorrect.

  • Automated safety check stops transfusion in case component does not match to the patient validated components.

 
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