Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank

Jaber Rad, Jason G. Quinn, Calvino Cheng, Robert Liwski, Samina Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMEDINFO 2021
Subtitle of host publicationOne World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
EditorsPaula Otero, Philip Scott, Susan Z. Martin, Elaine Huesing
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages572-576
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781643682648
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 6 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Oct 2 2021Oct 4 2021

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume290
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/2/2110/4/21

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

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