Buffalo Grove, IL, November 21, 2013 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. announces that Mid-South Regional Blood Center (Lifeblood®) will become the 18th customer to use Donor-IDTM software for their collection needs as they convert to Donor-IDTM from their current QDS system. Lifeblood is headquartered in Memphis, TN, and handles approximately 55,000 collections each year.
“Signing another customer for us this year is very exciting. Donor-IDTM, a product cleared (510k) by the FDA, helps to ensure the safety of America’s blood supply through positive donor identification and computer verification of critical data at the collection site. We are very pleased to have been selected to provide this ‘mission critical’ application and look forward to a long partnership with Lifeblood,” states Rick Stone, President and CEO of Healthcare-ID.
Donor-IDä is used to collect over 7,500,000 units of blood annually at 17 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 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.