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

doi:10.3233/SHTI220142

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

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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
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	https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220142
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
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
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

Access to Document

10.3233/SHTI220142

Cite this

Rad, J., Quinn, J. G., Cheng, C., Liwski, R., Abidi, S., & Abidi, S. S. R. (2022). Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank. In P. Otero, P. Scott, S. Z. Martin, & E. Huesing (Eds.), MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (pp. 572-576). (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 290). IOS Press BV. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220142

Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank. / Rad, Jaber; Quinn, Jason G.; Cheng, Calvino et al.
MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics. ed. / Paula Otero; Philip Scott; Susan Z. Martin; Elaine Huesing. IOS Press BV, 2022. p. 572-576 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 290).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Rad, J, Quinn, JG, Cheng, C, Liwski, R, Abidi, S & Abidi, SSR 2022, Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank. in P Otero, P Scott, SZ Martin & E Huesing (eds), MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 290, IOS Press BV, pp. 572-576, 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021, Virtual, Online, 10/2/21. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220142

Rad J, Quinn JG, Cheng C, Liwski R, Abidi S, Abidi SSR. Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank. In Otero P, Scott P, Martin SZ, Huesing E, editors, MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics. IOS Press BV. 2022. p. 572-576. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics). doi: 10.3233/SHTI220142

Rad, Jaber ; Quinn, Jason G. ; Cheng, Calvino et al. / Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank. MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation - Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics. editor / Paula Otero ; Philip Scott ; Susan Z. Martin ; Elaine Huesing. IOS Press BV, 2022. pp. 572-576 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics).

@inproceedings{dd848278ebd64f87b0f92bb158a1a1ed,

title = "Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank",

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.",

author = "Jaber Rad and Quinn, {Jason G.} and Calvino Cheng and Robert Liwski and Samina Abidi and Abidi, {Syed Sibte Raza}",

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: {\textcopyright} 2022 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.; 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021 ; Conference date: 02-10-2021 Through 04-10-2021",

year = "2022",

month = jun,

day = "6",

doi = "10.3233/SHTI220142",

language = "English",

series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",

publisher = "IOS Press BV",

pages = "572--576",

editor = "Paula Otero and Philip Scott and Martin, {Susan Z.} and Elaine Huesing",

booktitle = "MEDINFO 2021",

address = "Netherlands",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank

AU - Rad, Jaber

AU - Quinn, Jason G.

AU - Cheng, Calvino

AU - Liwski, Robert

AU - Abidi, Samina

AU - Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza

N1 - 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.

PY - 2022/6/6

Y1 - 2022/6/6

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131501903&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85131501903&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3233/SHTI220142

DO - 10.3233/SHTI220142

M3 - Conference contribution

C2 - 35673081

AN - SCOPUS:85131501903

T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

SP - 572

EP - 576

BT - MEDINFO 2021

A2 - Otero, Paula

A2 - Scott, Philip

A2 - Martin, Susan Z.

A2 - Huesing, Elaine

PB - IOS Press BV

T2 - 18th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: One World, One Health - Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, MEDINFO 2021

Y2 - 2 October 2021 through 4 October 2021

ER -

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

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Bibliographical note

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

PubMed: MeSH publication types

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this