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Integrated Approaches in Blood Supply Management Adoption of RFID tracking systems in blood transfusion helps to reduce human efforts and errors to maintain and control healthcare inventory, documentation and patient management
The blood transfusion service’s major
in voluntary donations and retainment
goal is to provide the safest possible
of future generations of blood donors
blood
will also be needed to cater to future
with
minimal
errors.
If
we
specifically talk about blood supply management, it is a critical function in the operations of blood transfusion services. Deepak Singh, MD, Biolog-id
Generally,
The
other
challenge
is
efficient
management of blood inventory as many
supply
blood banks still manage inventory
management is a challenging process,
manually which can lead to wastage of
there are a lot of factors involved
precious blood components and errors.
such as supply availability, demand
Blood banks are looking forward to new
fluctuation,
lifetime,
technologies which improve patient
stringent temperature control during
safety, increase efficiency and automate
transportation, the integrity of the
their processes. Integrated approaches
product for patient safety, and the cost
in blood supply management between
incurred during the process. An increase
transfusion services and hospitals will
short
blood
demand for the blood.
blood
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