Transfusion management is a key challenge for hospitals and blood banks across the country, and the Blood Bank module is designed to provide a comprehensive transfusion service with multi-facility inventory control, automation and patient safety measures. It provides a total solution that allows healthcare providers to better manage blood products issued to patients in a hospital or centralized transfusion service.

A few key capabilities of our solution:

• Barcode enabled throughout, including inventory entry
• Automatically capture of billing information and transmit to financial systems
• Managed inventory for blood products
• Additional test ordering is simplified with user-defined keyboards
• Improved patient safety with security based Quality Assurance override at the time of patient testing and product issue
• Improve turnaround time with Electronic Crossmatch and Blood Bank Instrument Interfaces.

Regulatory monitoring
Sunquest Information System’s Regulatory Affairs department is responsible for monitoring the Quality System Regulations for Medical Device Manufacturing and ensuring Sunquest processes conform to FDA regulations and reporting requirements. In addition, Regulatory Affairs is responsible for ensuring compliance to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003. Product Management and Product Development monitor AABB guidelines that govern blood bank operations and where practical, Sunquest designs its blood bank software to augment the ability of the blood banks to comply with these regulations and guidelines.