Sunquest Blood Bank is intended for use by trained health care professionals responsible for transfusion services. It is intended to: • Record testing results of patient specimens and blood products either manually or through instrument interfaces. • Maintain a historical record of the patient’s blood bank and transfusion related data. • Display data required to assist health care professionals when qualifying patients for electronic crossmatch. • Store records of manufactured and blood product component preparation. • Record the release of manufactured and blood products for infusion. • Maintain manufactured and blood product inventory for lookback. • Print ISBT 128 blood product labels for finished and further processed blood products and products intended for transfer.
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.