Buffalo Grove, IL, Thursday, June 16, 2011 – Healthcare-ID, Inc., announces that the Donor Adverse Reaction Module has been used in production at Coffee Memorial Blood Center, Amarillo, TX since April 18, 2011. The module was designed in conjunction with the AABB Biovigilance Working Group to develop a method to collect information on donor adverse reactions. This data is collected and can be uploaded to AABB. "We are very excited to have Coffee Memorial Blood Center be our first customer up and running on the Donor Adverse Reaction module. We know that the data collected will help the blood industry as a whole and function as an important step in continuing the focus on the safety of donors. We hope that this module will be utilized by many more blood centers in the future" said Bryan Sadorf, Vice President of Product Management.
Initial feedback from Coffee Memorial Blood Center has been very positive. Dr. Mary Townsend, who is the Medical Director of Coffee Memorial Blood Center, Amarillo, Texas, also served as the chair of the ABC Donor Reaction Working Group, as a member of the AABB Donor Biovigilance Working Group, and as a member of the AABB Young Donor Reaction Working Group. She states "we are so excited to have been given the chance to test-drive this new module. This will enable us to move to a completely paperless system for donor screening, donation data collection and finally donor reaction reporting both internally and externally, that is, reporting to the AABB Donor Biovigilance Database".
Donor-ID WebTM is used to collect over 7,000,000 units of blood annually at eleven 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, LifeStream in San Bernardino, CA, ITxM in Illinois (LifeSource Blood Services), Pennsylvania, and West Virginia (Central Blood Bank), and The American Red Cross, nationwide.
(About Healthcare-ID) Incorporated in 1995 and based in Buffalo Grove, IL, Healthcare-ID develops and markets products to meet the blood center's need for automating the entry of donor information at fixed and mobile collection sites. This helps assure accuracy, and drives efficiencies in center operations and blood inventory management. Healthcare-ID's Donor-ID WebTM modules provide a method of data collection throughout the blood donation process. These modules include Registration, Health History Screening, CASI, Internet CASI, Physical Exam, Daily QC, Phlebotomy, Shipping, Survey, and Donor Adverse Reaction (as developed with the AABB biovigilence committee). For more information please visit www.healthcare-id.com.