Buffalo Grove, IL, August 3, 2015 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center announce that Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is going to be the source plasma pilot site for the Donor-ID and Aurora (DXT) integration, making it the first Healthcare-ID customer to implement this process. The integration of Donor-ID with the Aurora device allows the setup parameters (i.e. donor name, donor, number, target plasma volume, etc.) to be sent from Donor-ID to the Aurora device (via DXT). Once the procedure is completed on the Aurora device, the data is then passed back to Donor-ID (via DXT) to allow for printing and/or storing of the procedure data and events.
“We are very excited to have a customer move into the growing source plasma space. We believe the integration with the Aurora device will help minimize data entry points, as well as errors that may have occurred when manually completing a procedure record,” 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 were very pleased with the ease and functionality of Donor-ID’s Aurora integration during the recent joint validation. It is very reassuring to know this important piece of our source plasma project will be implemented seamlessly.”
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.
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.