MEDITECH's Blood Bank application tightly integrates donor, unit, and patient history information with data in the health care information system (HCIS). The application flags abnormal test results, reports test and transfusion results, minimizes product waste, utilizes expert rules when recording, and performs error checks. It also generates turnaround time and workload statistics, compiles statistical reports, and automatically captures charges. Authorized users have the ability to view blood bank results from within the network or remotely. All of these features ensure patient safety and reduce turnaround times.
An application software program, routines, and/or algorithms intended to be used as or in an information system to electronically receive, collect, store, manage, assist in analysis of, display, output, and distribute administrative and clinical data within blood-bank centres. It accumulates data on blood-donor status and may include algorithms to process blood-bank information. It may perform additional tasks such as autologous and direct unit tracking, cross-match result determination, and/or management of bar-code information and patient history reports. It is typically supplied for installation into a blood bank information system, or mainframe or decentralized computers/networks.