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Mediware is committed to upholding high standards of patient safety in our industry, now and in the future. Supporting our clients and professionals in the field, we will continually deliver industry reports that support our focus on clinically rich technology solutions.
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Blood Bank
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Executive Summit
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Transfusion
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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Executive Summit
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Beyond Blood: Biologics and the Future of Blood Banking
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"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
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Executive Summit
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Positive Patient Identification for Transfusion Medicine
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"Are you aware that one of the leading causes of mortality is the misidentification at the bedside?."
- Dr. Tim Hilbert
New York University Hospital
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Medication Management
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Industry whitepaper:
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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. |
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Industry whitepaper:
Medication Without Borders
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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. |
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Blood Center
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Industry whitepaper:
Solutions and Strategies for Donor Recruitment
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"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
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Industry whitepaper:
Social Networking and Donor Recruitment for the Facebook Generation
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"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
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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 |
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Industry whitepaper:
Service vs. Commodity: The Blood Center as a Provider (Pending)
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"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."
- Bobby Grigsby
Carter BloodCare
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