Real-Time Blood Bag Track And Trace With RFID Tag

Background
In recent years, because blood transfusion errors can easily lead to catastrophic morbidity or death, patient safety related to the blood transfusion process has received extensive attention. Human error may occur at any step of the process, leading to potential or actual errors in blood management. Nearly one million patients in Poland require blood transfusions every year, so there is a huge demand for blood products to provide these important therapies. Blood banks and collection centers need portable data collection terminals to reliably track blood from donors to final recipients.

Challenge

There are thousands of blood bags in the blood bank. In order to find the appropriate blood bag they need, clinicians must check one by one to check the blood type, expiration date and blood test details. This is a difficult and time-consuming task.

The collection, storage, transportation, and tracking of blood bags involve multiple steps, requiring manual data entry. Human operation and lack of real-time visibility can lead to human error and poor blood bag quality control.

During the inventory check, the clinician needs to write down all the information and then type it into the fixed computer. That's too slow, and the latest inventory status cannot be updated in real time. Delayed blood transfusion may endanger the patient's life.

Solution

This automatic blood bag tracking and management solution is dedicated to automatic identification, data management and blood bag movement tracking. 

The T60 mobile computer ensures that blood is quickly and efficiently transported from the donation center to the bedside for blood transfusion. By using barcode and RFID technology for real-time tracking, the efficiency and speed of blood management can be improved. In addition, the solution can also enable blood authorities to better understand the list of different blood types in the hospital, and can easily achieve the required blood supply.

Application details

Uniquely identifiable information

Each qualified blood bag is affixed with a unique barcode or RFID tag, and carries corresponding identifiable information, such as blood type, exact storage location, collection date and expiration date, etc.

Tracking and tracing

From the donor to the final recipient, the movement of each blood bag has been tracked.

Data interaction

All data can be transmitted to the back-end system in real time via the wireless network, so the hospital administrator can view the blood list in real time.

Effects

• With the convenient update of our T60 PDA, all information is clear at a glance, including blood type, collection date, blood test results, etc.
  
• Non-contact reading reduces the chance of blood contamination.
  
• If any blood bags are about to expire, the PDA will issue a warning to ensure that every drop of blood has been fully utilized.
  
• RFID technology can quickly and accurately identify a large number of tagged blood bags, and is specially designed for stacking or storing blood bags in any direction.
  
• It eliminates manual records and transcripts, and reduces reliance on human data input.
  

PDA Configuration

Type: T60

Function： 1D RFID