Blood, Sweat and Software for Operational Excellence

The blood services industry is impacted by safety and quality issues like no other industry. A single contaminated blood donation can impact communities’ trust and have a devastating impact on the blood provider. Effective quality management addresses every aspect of blood collection and transfusion processes. It includes donor selection, collection processes, preparation of blood components, laboratory testing, distribution and ensuring safe, appropriate use of blood and blood components.

To ensure the quality of the blood supply, blood organizations must maintain full traceability of their blood supply from donation through transfusion. Risk of contamination goes beyond just maintaining proper screening processes. The organization’s people, processes, suppliers, and equipment must all be of the highest quality to eliminate problems and reduce the amount of blood that must be wasted.

Blood services organizations typically utilize a variety of manual and semi-automated systems to manage quality and compliance efforts. While these systems have created some efficiency within their functional areas, they lack the integration capabilities necessary to ensure the complete visibility and consistency needed to ensure regulatory compliance. Because of the number of manual and disconnected systems, the time, labor and costs to maintain paper-based and semi-automated IT systems have increased dramatically, without solving the core quality and compliance problems.

• Ensure blood supply safety, quality, and traceability through closed-loop processes, from donor recruitment through transfusion.
• Reduce costly waste and increase the availability of safe blood through proactive error management.
• Ensure the most current documents are available through streamlined document management processes for the collection, processing, compatibility testing, storage and distribution of blood and blood components for transfusion and further manufacturing.
• Automate assignments and monitoring of training tasks to ensure personnel are up to date on latest SOPs and required training and certifications.
• Ensure that the entire organization is knowledgeable about changes, especially those made to testing procedures for infectious disease screening.
• Lower IT and administrative costs with a modern cloud QHSE platform, available anywhere, anytime including bloodmobiles.
• Blood sampling.