BT's Wireless Blood Solution, which is based on the Olympus osYris blood track application, delivers a number of patient safety benefits while also helping to improve productivity and efficiency on the clinical frontline.
Many of the benefits are around the area of blood transfusion. For example, a bedside application gathers real-time information about a patient and the blood that patient is set to receive. If the system recognises an issue, it will not only trigger a screen alert and an audible bleep, but will wirelessly raise an alarm in the blood laboratory so that a blood manager can intervene.
The system also monitors standard procedure transfusion observation periods, automatically freeing up staff but retaining the ability to alert them if an adverse reaction occurs.
In addition, BT's wireless blood solution can help reduce the number of unnecessary transfusions carried out. For example it can detect samples or patients that show a compromised immune system.
This could help save the NHS millions of pounds given that the NHS chief medical officer has said that 30 per cent of the 130,000 blood bags prescribed every year are inappropriate - wasting time, money (around £150 per bag) and blood.
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