Buffalo Grove, IL, January 15, 2015 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. and Miller-Keystone Blood Center announce that Miller-Keystone has successfully implemented the Donor-IDä software on their fixed and mobile sites beginning Tuesday, January 6, 2015.  They went live with Screening, Phlebotomy, iCASI, and the Ultracrit and Welch Allyn Physical Exam interfaces.

“We are very excited to have Miller-Keystone Blood Center rolled out on Donor-IDä. It’s always rewarding to see another customer begin using the software in a live environment where they and the donors can really begin to see the true benefits of using Donor-IDä,” states Rick Stone, President and CEO of Healthcare-ID.

Sean Tinney, Director of Marketing at Miller-Keystone Blood Center, states, “We received a lot of positive feedback from our donors since the launch of Donor-ID.  Those that completed Donor-ID at the blood center mentioned they noticed a significant decrease in the amount of time answering their Donor History Questions (DHQ). The donors who completed their DHQs prior to arriving for their donation loved the convenience and decreased time getting through the donation process once they arrived for their appointment.”

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.

Established in 1971, Miller-Keystone Blood Center is an independent, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) community organization that serves as the only blood provider to 26 hospitals in 12 counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Only blood donated through Miller-Keystone is transfused at these facilities.