Abstract
The Hokkaido Red Cross Blood Center started installing an office computer in 1979 and since then has continued to utilize a computerized system for various blood center activities. Through two major developments and revisions of software in correspondence with the replacement of hardware, we began to install a new system. This new system incorporates programming for the newly introduced donation volumes and methods, the preparation and the supply of various blood products, including HLA-matched platelets, and the interface with autoanalyzers in the laboratory section, thereby enabling us to supply safe and suitable blood products to hospitals. The utilization of the computer software covers the following activities: the print out of donor forms for repeated donors at the blood center and the donating room, the input of the laboratory test results, information about blood products and orders from hospitals and billing to hospitals. As a result of this improved efficiency, the new system can be properly referred to as the integrated blood center system.There are five blood centers in Hokkaido and since all of these centers have installed the same computer and software, the labor and the cost of software maintenance has decreased. Moreover, the increased efficiency of information exchange among centers has afforded us a greater sense of continuity as a single functioning network.In this computerization, the bar code system, recommended by the International Society of Blood Transfusion, has been widely introduced and used in keeping and transferring various data.
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