BloodTrack^® Remote Inventory and
Bedside Transfusion Management Solution

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• Track, monitor, and secure your remote blood inventory.

Decrease Staff Workload, Delivery Time, Blood Waste, and Inventory Levels

• Enable your blood to be issued on demand, at the point of care.

Help Increase Patient Safety and Nursing Efficiency

• Verify your patient transfusions using barcoded wristbands and mobile computers.

Enhance Clinical and Blood Bank Staff Efficiency

• Provide your clinical staff with visibility to inventory and transfusion status.

Help Ensure Compliance with Regulations and Guidelines

• Provide electronic traceability records of blood products once they leave the blood bank.

• Evanstad, Lis. "Coventry makes moves to reduce paper." EHI eHealth Insider, 25 Feb 2014. Web. 16 Apr 2014.
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• BloodTrack reference articles
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• BloodTrack brings unexpected benefit to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
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• Barts and The London NHS Trust saves over £50,000 a year using BloodTrack HemoSafe
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• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario achieves 27% reduction in transfused units
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• BloodTrack brochure
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• BloodTrack HaemoBank (80) brochure 
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• BloodTrack HaemoBank (80) datasheet
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• BloodTrack HaemoBank (20) datasheet
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• BloodTrack — The original, award winning, remote blood inventory and bedside transfusion management system
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• BloodTrack Kiosk datasheet
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• BloodTrack Tx brochure
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1. October 17, 2012 - An innovative approach to improving blood product delivery
2. November 30, 2011 - Remote blood inventory & bedside transfusion management system

1. What is BloodTrack?
   BloodTrack^® is Haemonetics’ remote blood inventory and bedside transfusion management solution, which acts as an extension of your blood bank’s transfusion management information system to physically secure and electronically verify and monitor your hospital’s blood supply chain to ensure the right blood product is transfused to the right patient, at the right time, in the right condition. The BloodTrack system also helps achieve compliance with your regulations and standard operating procedures (SOPs) — in effect extending the walls of your blood bank to the point-of-care. It is sometimes referred to as a “blood vending machine,” “blood bank vending machine,” “automated blood dispensing machine,” or “smart blood dispensing refrigerator.” Within its integrated modules, the BloodTrack suite is able to secure, track, and monitor blood, blood products and plasma-derived products in any remote location using new or existing temperature controlled storage containers, such as room temperature cabinets, refrigerators, freezers, and platelet incubators. 
   
   
2. Why do I need BloodTrack?
   The BloodTrack solution can help your hospital secure, verify, and monitor your blood supply chain electronically — from the blood bank to remote storage locations, such as operating rooms, the emergency department, critical care units, oncology clinics, and labor and delivery rooms. BloodTrack provides you with visibility, traceability, and proactive monitoring of remote blood inventory and also helps to ensure positive patient identification at the bedside for transfusion. From a caregiver perspective, the BloodTrack system can help improve your access to routine and emergency blood products and plasma-derived products by storing and dispensing them at the point-of-care. It can also eliminate or reduce the hassle of manually completing paperwork required by your blood bank since transactions, including transfusion documentation, are recorded electronically.
   
   
3. How does BloodTrack work?
   The BloodTrack system maintains a complete audit trail of all events related to a blood product or plasma-derived product. Each time that a blood or plasma-derived product is handled, the system verifies the following:
   • The person accessing the BloodTrack system is authorized to do so
   • The blood product has not been outside of refrigeration longer than appropriate
   • The crossmatch has not passed its specimen expiration date
   • The blood product has not passed its expiry date
   • The blood product is the oldest available for the specified patient
   
   
4. How can BloodTrack help my organization?
   Customers who have deployed the BloodTrack solutions have gained efficiencies, lowered costs, reduced crossmatch to transfusion (CT) ratios, and experienced an overall improvement in patient care by reducing the time to transfusion. The BloodTrack system can help your organization:
   • Improve patient safety by verifying “right blood product, right patient” at the bedside
   • Help enhance clinical outcomes by reducing time to transfusion
   • Decrease blood waste
   • Reduce time to electronic crossmatch (EXM) and dispense appropriate blood product at the point-of-care
   • Eliminate the use of coolers
   • Reduce transport time
   
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5. How many modules are in the BloodTrack suite and how are they used?
   There are 7 integrated modules within the BloodTrack suite of solutions to help ensure that each link in the blood supply chain is optimized to reduce costs, eliminate waste, and provide better patient care. They include:
   
   BloodTrack­^® Manager™ (Central Dashboard)
   The central dashboard located in the blood bank. It displays remote blood inventory, transfusion status, and alerts in real-time providing complete traceability of blood products and plasma-derived products once they leave the blood bank for end-to-end product tracking. With BloodTrack Manager, all of the information related to each blood unit and patient’s transfusion status is captured and is visible to your blood bank so they can make informed, real-time decisions to ensure timely patient care, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.
   
   BloodTrack^® Emerge (Secure Blood Inventory)
   Secures remote emergency blood product inventory in the emergency department, trauma center, or labor and delivery wards. Monitors, secures, and records O Pos and O Neg RBCs and AB plasma — providing your authorized caregivers with immediate access to emergency blood at the point-of-need.
   
   BloodTrack^® Courier™ (Secure Blood Inventory)
   Secures your remote blood and plasma-derived product inventory at the point-of-care, which is often located in intensive care, oncology, dialysis, and off-site surgical centers. This module secures, tracks, and verifies the movement of any blood product — both emergency and crossmatched — or plasma-derived product in and out of remote storage locations.
   
   BloodTrack^® OnDemand™ (Just-in-Time Blood Inventory)
   Enables “just-in-time” blood inventory management and automated blood product and plasma-derived product dispensing at the point-of-care in less than 60 seconds. Operates with the following refrigerators to help you allocate and dispense products “just-in-time” at the point-of-care:
   • BloodTrack HemoSafe — a 110 individually locking refrigerated compartment
   • BloodTrack HemoNine — a 9-drawer refrigerated locking unit
   
   The BloodTrack OnDemand software eliminates the need to assign and crossmatch units in advance of a potential need.
   
   BloodTrack^® Enquiry (Clinical Transfusion Workflow)
   Manages clinical transfusion workflow, which enables your caregivers to check crossmatch sample validity, view and query the location of blood units, determine the patient’s transfusion status, and print barcoded blood pick-up slips, from any workstation.
   
   AutoPPI^® (Admission)
   Prints barcoded wristbands (linear and 2D) for positive patient identification, enabling BloodTrack Tx deployments without the need for wireless networks.
   
   BloodTrack^® Tx™ (Transfusion Verification)
   Provides transfusion verification at the bedside helping you verify that the right blood is given to the right patient using barcode point-of-care (BPOC) and barcode positive patient identification (PPID) technology.
   
   
6. How will I know what solution is best for my organization?
   We have a team of business design analysts and professional project managers to help your organization determine the best solution. In some instances, we recommend an “onsite” baseline assessment for us to learn as much as possible about your current operations to ensure that we recommend the right solution, configure it properly for your needs and establish the baseline against which we will show progress once the BloodTrack solution(s) is implemented.
   
   
7. What is the difference between the BloodTrack HemoSafe and the BloodTrack HemoNine?
   The BloodTrack HemoSafe and BloodTrack HemoNine are software controlled, automated dispensing refrigerators (sometimes referred to as smart refrigerators or blood vending machines) that secure, track, monitor, and remotely allocate your uncrossmatched, unassigned, and emergency blood, blood products and plasma-derived products on-demand, at the point-of-care. The HemoSafe and HemoNine differ in the manner in which each blood unit is physically secured. The HemoSafe uses individual compartments to secure blood products and plasma derived products, while the HemoNine is a 9-drawer locking refrigerator — one drawer for each of the ABO RH blood groups and one for crossmatched units — which is controlled by the BloodTrack kiosk. The process of remotely allocating and dispensing blood products “just-in-time” at the HemoSafe and HemoNine is identical.
   
   
8. In what types of storage locations are BloodTrack Courier and BloodTrack Emerge used or deployed?
   BloodTrack Courier and BloodTrack Emerge can be deployed to control a wide variety of storage locations including refrigerators, room temperature cabinets, freezers, and incubators/agitators. The Haemonetics BloodTrack team can assess your specific storage location to ensure it can be secured by the BloodTrack software. 
   
   
9. Can anyone access BloodTrack and remove units of blood?
   Only trained users are able to access BloodTrack systems. When a user presents credentials (e.g., badge, pin number, or other site-defined identification process) at the BloodTrack controlled refrigerator, the BloodTrack system verifies that the person accessing it is authorized to do so.
   
   
10. How is the patient identified at the BloodTrack refrigerator?
    Patient identification at a BloodTrack software-controlled container (refrigerators, room temperature cabinets, freezers, and incubators/agitators) can occur in 4 ways:
    
    1. The safest method is to deploy BloodTrack Tx at the patient’s bedside and print a barcoded pick-up slip label after scanning the patient’s barcoded wristband. The pick-up slip containing the patient’s information can then be used as a digital key in unlocking the blood at a BloodTrack software-controlled container
    
    2. Pick-up slips can be printed by entering the patient’s information into our BloodTrack Enquiry clinical software application, which may be installed on clinical workstations
    
    3. At the BloodTrack software-controlled refrigerator, your authorized caregivers can enter the patient’s hospital number (e.g., MRN) or last name into the kiosk using a touch screen keyboard
    
    4. At the BloodTrack software-controlled refrigerator, authorized caregivers can scan a patient’s paper record containing his/her barcoded hospital number (e.g., MRN) into the kiosk
    
    
11. Do I need an interface for BloodTrack Emerge?
    No. BloodTrack Emerge can be deployed without an interface to a transfusion management or blood bank information system (BBIS) or Lab Information System (LIS). The BloodTrack Manager software — which connects to the BloodTrack Emerge controlled refrigerator — monitors, secures, and records emergency blood products. This provides your authorized caregivers with immediate access to O Pos and O Neg RBCs and AB Neg plasma at the point-of-need. A barcoded report of dispensed units can then be printed from BloodTrack Manager at the end of the day and scanned into your LIS/BBIS to reconcile the inventory.
    
    
12. Does our hospital need a wireless network to implement BloodTrack Tx for blood verification at the bedside?
    No, BloodTrack Tx can be deployed in non-wireless environments by leveraging 2D barcodes on the patient’s wristband and blood unit compatibility label. Information on the handheld can then be uploaded to a central server via a cradle docking station.
    
    
13. What are the differences between BloodTrack OnDemand, remote allocation, “just-in-time” dispensing, and electronic remote blood issue (ERBI)?
    The following terms are used in the industry for the same revolutionary method of providing blood products to patients:
    • BloodTrack OnDemand is the software provided by Haemonetics that performs Remote Allocation using the HemoSafe or HemoNine refrigerators. Sometime referred to as automating blood product dispensing refrigerators or blood vending machines
    • Remote allocation is the process of remotely dispensing blood products, also referred to as automating of the electronic crossmatch (EXM)
    • Just-in-time dispensing is the outcome of implementing BloodTrack OnDemand
    • ERBI is the European term for remote allocation