JP-100 SafeScan
Background
Clinical Pathology Accreditation, The European Parliament and SHOT (Serious Hazards Of Transfusion) have all highlighted the need for electronic systems to aid traceability and movement of blood products within the hospital.
Problem
The current systems provided by large commercial companies are prohibitively expensive to District General Hospitals and thus many use hand-written records to track-and-trace the movement of blood products into and out-of laboratory fridges.
Solution
JP-100 SafeScan is a blood tracking software documenting individual units numbers of blood, their storage location and time out of the cold chain. The JP-100 SafeScan software has been in use in a leading London hospital for over 1 year and successfully tracked over 70,000 units of blood in the last 6 months alone. Scanning units out from arrival via delivery box, it logs the individual units into the selected fridge(s) and allows users to create a log of product movement, providing audible warnings when unit(s) have been out of the cold chain for more than 25 minutes. It also recognises the blood group and product type from the bar-code, coupled with the movement trail it gives the user an easy to access audit trail.
Key Features:
- Electronic logging of blood products via ISBT-128
- Audible alarm if blood product is out of the cold chain after 25 minutes
- Compliance with Blood Safety and Quality regulation SI 2005/50
- One button operation
- Data can be exported to MS Excel
Market potential
According to the Blood Stocks Management Scheme (BSMS) between April '03 and July '05 there were 143 fridge failures reported resulting in the loss of 1,993 units of blood. Every month between 1 and 12 incidents were reported, resulting in blood product wastage. The new UK Blood and Safety Regulations demand documented cold chain validation (Ref: BSMS (2005), affordable electronic systems are the logical pathway for DGHs to comply.
This product is currently available to license from NHSIL.
