Veterinary: Bringing Blood and Sample Management to your Practice
Veterinary – The Challenge
We can all agree that a modern Vet’s practice is a very busy place with many different animals and pets being looked after at the same time. The work being performed in a Vet practice can be far more complex that a human hospital because the patients still suffer with the same issues as humans but don’t talk and there are many different types of patient to look after each with a different body make up.
Vets just like Hospital Doctors and Nurses still have to perform the same basic procedures on their patients and with that they have to manage Blood units for operations and taking many different Samples to analyse in the Lab.
Regulation, guidance and compliance is also key when handling Blood products and Samples as it is with Human products.
“This is where the MSoft360 solutions can help”
Blood360 can manage the myriad of different animal blood and their associated blood types. Blood360 can help both managing the cold chain of the Blood unit, expiry time and the reservation of that unit for the patient.
“Blood360 can also provide a distributed electronic release Pet Blood Bank”
Sample360 can help by making sure the correct samples are being taken from the correct animal and then handled correctly on their way to the Lab.
The Solution – Sample360
“Sample360 is digital sample collection management system that enables Veterinarian staff to use mobile devices the manage the taking of Samples from animal patients. The mobile device receives real-time sample order requests (providing an electronic worklist) and confirms a patient’s identity. It then prints sample tube labels featuring an identifying barcode which allows the sample tube to be loaded directly onto the analyser when it reaches the laboratory.”
- Paper-free sample collection.
- Sample orders are RAG rated.
- Samples are then tracked in transit using GPS
- Real-time temperature tracking and locating of Samples in transit.
- Coolboxes are automatically “booked in” to Lab.
- Real-time updates of Sample to requesting staff..
- Elimination of all incidents of the wrong blood in the sample tube.
- Huge efficiencies in the laboratory, as samples no longer need to be re-labelled before being loaded into the analyser.
Sample360 help to eliminate:
- Excessive wrong blood in tube rates
- High rejection rates of samples at the Lab
- Slow manual process with little electronic checking or guidance
- Samples spoilt due to delays – causing e.g. coagulation
- Samples lost in logistics with little or no tracking of responsibility
- Near misses due to lack of Positive Pet ID checking
- Slow unpredictable speed of bleed to Lab door
- Excessive delays from Lab door to analyser
- Unpredictable time taken for bleed results to reach requester
- Excessive administration costs
- Excessive costs for all supporting stationery which is bad for the environment.
The Solution – Blood360
“Blood360 is a truly unique blood tracking system. At its core is a fully secure access and computerised audit, reporting and stock management solution – allowing for cross-matched issue, remote issue, tailored reporting and auditing, and transfusion management, patient observations monitoring and reporting with real time alerting and communication. Blood360 consists of a central Cloud Server (Hub) allowing for full communication between Pet Blood Banks, laboratories, devices and ward staff. Supplemented by next generation Blood360 kiosks providing controlled access to blood stock & issue refrigerators and the latest in healthcare standard mobile devices extending animal patient safety to the bedside.“
- 100% Paper-free sample collection.
- Real-time reservation of Blood Units from the Pet Blood Bank and Lab System (LIS/ LIMS).
- Supports Red Cells, Platelets, FFP, Cryo and Batch Products.
- Temperature Monitoring in Fridge, Freezer and Transport Boxes.
- Right Blood, Right Patient.
- Storage of Blood Audit Data.
- 360 degree Vein to Vein Blood Tracking.
- Powerful on-line Training System.
- RFID Tag Support.
- Positive Pet Identification.
- Kiosk access control of ANY Fridge or Blood Container.
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