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You are correct about Misys not having a way to electronically mirror data for use during downtime. Both McKesson Horizon BB (Wyndgate) and SoftBankII also write patient data to a PC much the same as HCLL. A few of the features I would like to have that my current system (Misys) does not have are listed below. 1. The ability to inventory critical materials and track their use during testing and component preparation. 2. A feature to quickly emergency release blood prior to completion of compatability testing. 3. The ability to automatically shorten the expiration to 28 days when irradiating red cells with original expiration >28 days. 4. If a unit is returned > 30 minutes after issue, the system should either quarantine the unit or alert the user. 5. The ability to define security down to the test level as well as assigning security to be able to enter and verify/release results vs enter results but not verify/release. 6. The availability of online exception reports for supervisor review and documentation of any corrective action. Be sure to investigate how well a system can interface with your LIS and/or HIS and talk to clients about system reliability, vendor support, and implementation time. Misys did issue a Product Safety Notice recently. There was a problem with their new GUI v6.1. In batch entry mode, the data being entered could be out of sync with the accession number, patient and/or unit(s) displayed on the screen. I understand that a patch was issued to correct the defect.