Buffalo Grove, IL, October 20, 2014 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. and Oklahoma Blood Institute announce that OBI has implemented the Welch Allyn interface in Donor-IDä. Donor-IDä interfaces with Welch Allyn to allow the spot vitals captured by the device to be automatically imported into the Donor-IDä physical exam module.
“We are very excited to have Oklahoma Blood Institute begin using this functionality as we know the physical exam interface helps reduce entry errors and therefore allows for more accurate capturing of the vitals obtained from the Welch Allyn device. We are always looking to help make the collection process more efficient, and so it’s very rewarding to see new functionality being rolled out at a customer location,” states Bryan Sadorf, Executive Vice President and COO of Healthcare-ID.
Jeannie Gardner, Executive Vice President of Collections for OBI, states, “We are excited to have this next level of automation for our donor screening process. Having the donor vital signs directly uploaded to D-ID reduces the chance of clerical errors and gives us better confidence in our process. We have implemented this in our main donor center and look forward to rolling it out to other locations in the very near future.”
Donor-IDä is used to collect over 7,500,000 units of blood annually at 18 blood centers across the United States: Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in Houston, TX; Memorial Blood Center in St Paul, MN; Mississippi Blood Services in Jackson, MS; Oklahoma Blood Institute in Oklahoma City, OK; Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo, TX; Blood Bank of Delmarva in Newark, DE; Stanford Blood Center in Palo Alto, CA; ITxM with Central Blood Bank in Pittsburgh, PA and LifeSource Blood Services in Chicago, IL; LifeStream in San Bernardino, California; Dak-Minn Blood Bank in partnership with Altru Health System in Grand Forks, ND; ARUP Blood Services in Salt Lake City, UT; Heartland Blood Centers in Aurora, IL; Blood Center of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI; Central California Blood Center in Fresno, CA; Miller-Keystone Blood Center in Bethlehem, PA, Mid-South Regional Blood Center (Lifeblood®) in Memphis, TN and The American Red Cross, nationwide.
(About Healthcare-ID) Incorporated in January 1995, Healthcare-ID develops and markets products to meet the Blood Center's need for automating the entry of accurate information at both fixed and mobile collection sites to eliminate the disposal of collected blood units based on donor eligibility and suitability, and significantly reduce the cost of blood collection. Healthcare-ID, with its Donor-IDTM product offers modules including Registration, Health History Screening, CASI, Internet CASI, Physical Exam, Daily QC, Phlebotomy, Shipping, Survey, and Donor Adverse Reaction (as developed with the AABB Biovigilance committee) Donor-IDTM interfaces to most major blood center data management systems. Visit www.healthcare-id.com for more information.
Oklahoma Blood Institute is the ninth largest, non-profit blood center in America. Some 164 medical facilities in Oklahoma, north Texas and western and central Arkansas rely exclusively on it for every drop of blood needed for patients. Affiliates Texas Blood Institute and Arkansas Blood Institute collect and provide blood in their respective states. Through this organization, volunteer blood donors give more than a 287,000 units of blood annually to provide a safe and adequate blood supply.