Buffalo Grove, IL, December 4, 2014 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center announce that Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center has implemented the Donor Adverse Reaction module making it among the first Healthcare-ID customers to implement this process. The Donor Adverse Reaction module allows electronic capturing of a donor’s reaction and subsequent actions, i.e. treatment, observers, follow-up, etc.  The system also allows for the reaction data to be extracted and uploaded to the AABB Biovigilance website for data trending.

“We are very excited to have Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center roll out this functionality as we think it is beneficial module for centers to utilize, in addition to it being beneficial for the AABB Biovigilance group. It’s always rewarding to see new functionality being rolled out at a customer location,” states Bryan Sadorf, Executive Vice President and COO of Healthcare-ID.

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center went live on Donor-ID in 2000.  Bart Block, Director of Management Information Systems for Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, states, “We are always looking for smart ways to automate manual processes and are excited to be among the first to implement the Donor Adverse Reaction module. We look forward to contributing to industry benchmarking and to improving our own donor reaction reporting.”

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-ID^TM 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-ID^TM interfaces to most major blood center data management systems. Visit www.healthcare-id.com for more information.

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, based in Houston, Texas, is the primary supplier of blood components to more than 170 hospitals and health care facilities in a 26-county Texas Gulf Coast region. Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization and is accredited, licensed and inspected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), AABB as well as local and state authorities. The Blood Center is a proud member of AABB, Blood Centers of America, South Central Association of Blood Banks, the Texas Medical Center and America's Blood Centers. Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is an independent, non-profit blood center that is not affiliated with the American Red Cross.