Electronic blood tracking system
dc.contributor.author | McEvoy, Catherine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-18T12:16:06Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-18T12:16:06Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/605713 | en |
dc.description | Over 1,000 people receive transfusions every week in Ireland. This represents a substantial amount of blood movement from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) to the hospitals. The need for EU and national laws covering the safety of blood transfusion arose out of the bleak events of the 1980s and 1990s where poor transfusion practices in several countries including Ireland, contributed to the spread of HIV and hepatitis in Europe and throughout the world. Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) has also contributed significantly to the problem as currently there is no test for donors. Consequently it is necessary to have complete traceability for all blood products due to the long incubation period of the CJD prion EU Blood Directive 2002/98/EC enacted in Statutory Instrument 360 of 2005 seeks to ensure that the best practices in transfusion are adopted and available everywhere in Europe by “setting standards of quality and safety for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components” and covers both blood establishments and hospital blood banks. The effective date was November 2005, however the Irish government granted hospital blood banks a three year derogation for the quality system and they had to be fully compliant by November 2008. By the November 2008 deadline hospital blood banks achieved compliance using paperbased traceability systems with some hospitals further supported by electronic blood tracking systems. This case study outlines the improvements brought about by the introduction of an Electronic Blood Tracking system for Ireland. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Health Service Executive (HSE) | en |
dc.subject | ELECTRONIC RECORDS | en |
dc.subject | BLOOD | en |
dc.title | Electronic blood tracking system | en |
dc.type | Other | en |
dc.contributor.department | eHealth Ireland | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-27T13:52:35Z |