Buffalo Grove, IL, October 10, 2016 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. announced today that it will be hosting a Donor Adverse Reaction session in their booth at the 2016 AABB Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. 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 (DonorHART™) for data trending.
Stop by Healthcare-ID booth #500 on Sunday, October 23 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm, or Monday, October 24th from 11:00am – 12:00pm to see first-hand how Memorial Blood Centers has implemented the Donor-ID™ Donor Adverse Reaction module. Scott Geislinger, RN, CQIA/Donor Suitability Specialist, Collections Quality, Innovative Blood Resources, will talk about their case/time study, implementation process, benefits, as well as a demo of the module itself.
“We are super excited to have Scott in our booth this year talking about our Donor Adverse Reaction module. Memorial Blood Centers, a division of Innovative Blood Resources, has always been on the cutting edge of the latest and greatest Donor-ID™ functionality, and that includes the implementation of the reaction module, as they were one of our first customers to roll it out. We are elated to learn of the many benefits that they have seen so far, including the reduction in manual errors,” stated Bryan Sadorf, Vice President and COO.
Hours of operation for the Annual Meeting are: Saturday, October 22, 5:45 pm – 8:00 pm; Sunday, October 23, 11:00 am – 4:30 pm; Monday, October 24, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm; Tuesday, October 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Donor-ID™ is used to collect over 7,500,000 units of blood annually at 16 blood centers across the United States: Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in Houston, TX; Memorial Blood Centers in St Paul, MN; Oklahoma Blood Institute in Oklahoma City, OK; Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo, TX; 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; 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; Rhode Island Blood Center in Providence, RI, 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™ 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™ interfaces to most major blood center data management systems. Visit www.healthcare-id.com for more information.
About Innovative Blood Resources
Innovative Blood Resources is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charitable organization operating two nationally-recognized, community-based blood centers—Minnesota-based Memorial Blood Centers and Nebraska Community Blood Bank, based in Lincoln—that provide comprehensive blood products and advanced laboratory services, and enhanced value-driven solutions for hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare partners. Clinical staff also offers expertise in biomedical research and transfusion medicine to help clients adaptively meet future economic and healthcare changes.