Abstract
Blood products and their derivatives are perishable commodities that require an efficient inventory management to ensure both a low wastage rate and a high product availability rate. To optimize blood product inventory, Blood Transfusion Services (BTS) need to reduce wastage by avoiding outdates and improving availability of different blood products. We took a blood product lifecycle approach and used advanced visualization techniques to design and develop a highly interactive web-based dashboard to audit retrospective data and consequently, to identify and learn from procedural inefficiencies based on analysis of transactional data. We present pertinent scenarios to show how the blood transfusion staff can use the dashboard to investigate blood product lifecycles so as to probe transition sequence patterns that led to wastage as a means to discover causes of procedural inefficiencies in the BTS.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | MEDINFO 2021 |
Subtitle of host publication | One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics |
Editors | Paula Otero, Philip Scott, Susan Z. Martin, Elaine Huesing |
Publisher | IOS Press BV |
Pages | 572-576 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781643682648 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 6 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: Oct 2 2021 → Oct 4 2021 |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics |
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Volume | 290 |
ISSN (Print) | 0926-9630 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1879-8365 |
Conference
Conference | 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 10/2/21 → 10/4/21 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research is supported by the Blood Efficiency Accelerator Award by Canadian Blood Services. We thank the NSHA Central Zone Blood Transfusion Services for providing us the dataset and supporting the project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Management
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article