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Blood Bank
Executive Summit
Report on:
Transfusion Appropriateness
From Mediware's executive summit on blood and cellular therapies:
The blood bank really has to know a lot about immunology, hematology, oncology and other areas to do the right thing and help the resident get the right thing."
- Dr. Ronald Gilcher
Sylvan N. Goldman Center, Oklahoma Blood Institute (Retired)
Executive Summit
Report on:
Blood Utilization
From Mediware's executive summit on blood and cellular therapies:
"One of the failures... of how we handle information is it creates a level of multitasking that we shouldn't be doing."
- Dr. Hal Kaplan
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Executive Summit
Report on:
Demand Planning
From Mediware's executive summit on blood and cellular therapies:
"What you're doing is monitoring the appropriateness of bulk distributions of inventory to a hospital, based on some standard of what that hospital might require."
- Dr. Merlin Sayers
Carter BloodCare
Executive Summit
Report on:
Disaster Preparedness
From Mediware's executive summit on blood and cellular therapies:
"I want to make a point that I think is important. Anytime you're dealing with chaos, you're better off dealing with one blood type."
- Dr. Ronald Gilcher
Sylvan N. Goldman Center, Oklahoma Blood Institute (Retired)
Executive Summit
Report on:
Beyond Blood: Biologics and
the Future of Blood Banking
"We don't have this kind of back-up computer system that enables us to do it all. Yet, all the functionality they need for a unit of red cells, they also need for a frozen femur sitting in our freezer."
- Dr. Paul Ness
Johns Hopkins Health System
Executive Summit
Report on:
Positive Patient Identification
for Transfusion Medicine
"Are you aware that one of the leading causes of mortality is the misidentification at the bedside?."
- Dr. Tim Hilbert
New York University Hospital
Medication Management
Industry whitepaper:
Safety by Design
A study of the various approaches that medication systems leverage to enable cross function communication and how only an integrated, closed loop environment delivers on the promise of improved patient safety.
Industry whitepaper:
Medication Without Borders
A detailed review of the Medication Reconciliation process and discussion on how an automated medication reconciliation tool can overcome the challenges to improve efficiency and effectiveness of hospital staff.
Blood Center
Industry whitepaper:
Solutions and Strategies
for Donor Recruitment
"There must be vigilance as better blood use is part of the solution to improving donations and balancing supply and demand."
- Dr. Tim Hilbert
New York University Hospital
Industry whitepaper:
Social Networking and
Donor Recruitment for the
Facebook Generation
"It's more of a marketing tool...I can see that it's one of the ways to communicate with the younger generation."
- Rodeina Davis
Blood Center of Wisconsin
Industry whitepaper:
Negotiating the Relationship Between Hospitals and
Blood Centers
(Pending)
"Remember, Blood Centers are like Switzerland. We serve lots of different hospitals. We don't know why it's one hospital versus another necessarily, but we do have an alignment and we make it very clear that we serve everybody."
- Dr. Jay Menitove Community Blood Center of Greater
Kansas City
Industry whitepaper:
Service vs. Commodity: The Blood Center as a Provider
(Pending)
"We have a variety of specialized laboratory services that helps [us] interact with the hospital to become a co-healthcare provider, rather than a vendor, which is one thing that I think none of us really want to be."