Blood Bank Computerization System

Nowadays, the blood banks established very well the necessity and feasibility of blood bank computerization. This blood bank computerization affects many institutes and vendors who devoted to blood bank computerization. Moreover, these systems firstly attempt to automate various processing, testing and producing activities to avoid human-introduced contamination and errors. At the same time, the automation of the systems streamlined the diverse operations taking place in a blood bank such as donor screening, data analyzing, blood management and dissemination (Li, et al. 2007). The service of blood donation involves collecting, processing, storing and providing human blood, which entails rigorous controlling, monitoring and complete documentation

Army deployed its cordless bar code scanning technology to upgrade and automate the management of blood inventory. The Army is using a bar code scanning solution consisting of socket cordless hand scanner devices with handheld computers housed in Otter Box PDA cases. The scanner reads bar codes containing specific blood inventory information transmitted wirelessly to the handhelds via a Bluetooth connection, utilizing a custom blood-tracking software program designed by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. The software communicated the tracking information back to the combat support hospital to ensure that the proper blood inventory makes it to the correct location (Medicine & Law Weekly, 2006). The automated data acquiring interface, a salient feature of contemporary blood bank information system, can effectively reduce human-introduced errors. For instance, barcode printers and readers labeled most materials in that blood bank and verified through their unique barcodes (Li, et al 2007). Moreover, an interface having a reader connected to the system computer for receiving the operator identifier and transmitting the operator identifier to the system computer, and for receiving separate input of a blood component soft good identifier and transmitting the blood component soft good identifier to the system database for managing inventory (Indian Patients News, 2012). Ideally, both the producers and the users should have inventory-management

The baseline model incorporates common blood-ordering policies from several hospitals. The model does not represent an identifiable hospital, but these policies are all in use in one or more of the hospitals which collects data. The model removed expired units which occurs on the 23rd day of its life in the Centre's bank, preventing very old blood from being given to hospitals where there are limited chances of using it, and on the 35th day in the hospital blood bank (or the 14th if it is for irradiated RBCs, after being irradiated). The Centre keep enough stock to satisfy expected demand for 4.5 days (Katsaliaki, et al, 2007). The Centre stored a bag of blood under the conditions established by the manufacturer and in an orderly manner that permits segregation by batch or lot and stock rotation. Storage and use should follow the "first-expiring first-out ' principle (i.e. using the bag of blood that entered in the storage first). Comparison of outdated blood when using freshest (LIFO) "last-in-first-out" versus the oldest (FIFO) blood as well as simulating the operation of the blood bank assuming various type order up to policies (Nahmias, 2011). (Abbasi, et al, 2013) propose a modified FIFO policy for a single perishable inventory system with stochastic replenishment and show that, in some cases, it outperforms both LIFO and regular FIFO