SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BLOOD PROCESSING PROCEDURES
First Claim
1. In a blood component collection facility comprising a plurality of separately operable blood component collection instruments, a system for networking the blood component collection facility comprising:
- a system computer comprising a memory and a communication interface, the system computer being linked to a plurality of input devices for tracking donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments with respect to one or more blood product collection procedures, the system computer also being linked to at least one administrative level computing device to monitor blood component collection activities throughout the blood component collection facility and to facilitate decision making with respect to allocation of at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments based on information regarding at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments.
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Abstract
Systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for managing blood processing operations and data for one or more blood component collection facilities are provided. An example system for networking the blood component collection facility includes a system computer including a memory and a communication interface. The system computer is linked to a plurality of input devices for tracking donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments with respect to one or more blood product collection procedures. The system computer is also linked to at least one administrative level computing device to monitor blood component collection activities throughout the blood component collection facility and to facilitate decision making with respect to allocation of at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments based on information regarding at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments.
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26 Claims
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1. In a blood component collection facility comprising a plurality of separately operable blood component collection instruments, a system for networking the blood component collection facility comprising:
- a system computer comprising a memory and a communication interface, the system computer being linked to a plurality of input devices for tracking donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments with respect to one or more blood product collection procedures, the system computer also being linked to at least one administrative level computing device to monitor blood component collection activities throughout the blood component collection facility and to facilitate decision making with respect to allocation of at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments based on information regarding at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An article of manufacture comprising:
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a computer readable storage medium; and executable program instructions embodied in the computer readable storage medium that when executed by a programmable system cause the system to implement a graphical user interface for blood component collection resource management comprising; a graphical depiction of a plurality of blood component collection areas in a blood component collection facility, each depicted area comprising one or more of; a graphical indicator of blood component collection instrument status; a graphical indicator of blood component collection kit status; a graphical indicator of operator status; and a graphical indicator of donor status, the plurality of graphical indicators to convey at least one of a progress and alert for a blood component collection procedure occurring or scheduled to occur in a blood component collection area of the blood component collection facility. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer-implemented method of soft goods donation resource and data management for one or more blood collection facilities, the method comprising:
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electronically processing available identification and status information related to one or more resources including blood collection devices, blood collection kits, blood donors, and blood collection device operators for one or more blood collection stations; automatically analyzing each of the available identification and status information for each of the one or more resources according to one or more measurement criteria; transforming the available identification and status information analyzed for the one or more blood collection stations into a corresponding graphical indication of each of the available one or more resources; electronically outputting the corresponding graphical indication of each of the available one or more resources for the one or more blood collection stations in a graphical user interface dashboard for user review; and facilitating resource allocation and re-allocation based on the graphical user interface dashboard. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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