Features and benefits
A Complete Audit Trail
By automatically recording all activities – from arrival of blood in the blood bank, through requesting and crossmatch to transfusion into the patient – BloodTrack collects all the information required to audit for:
- CPA Accreditation
- CNST audit
- EU Blood Directive Compliance
Conserving Blood Stocks
BloodTrack virtually eliminates blood wastage by controlling and monitoring access to blood stock and tracking its movement around the hospital. Using BloodTrack’s electronic issue functionality, blood usage can be reduced in some areas by 20%.
Patient Safety
BloodTrack eliminates the occurrence of all patient identifi cation errors by:
- Ensuring positive identifi cation of caregiver, blood unit, patient and samples for crossmatching
- Providing an electronic protocol-based transfusion procedure to the caregiver at the patient’s bedside
Traceability and the EU Directive
BloodTrack automatically provides a full vein-to-vein audit trail for all blood components.
- Captures proof of fate-of-unit
- Records kept for 30 years
- Supports compliance with the EU Directive 98/2002/EC and the UK Blood Safety and Quality Regulations
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