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Cliff

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    Digitizing Antibody Workup Files

    in Computer Systems / Software / ISBT128

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    This is a tough one.

    In a former position, I created an intranet that had many functions.  One we added was document storage.  For many years, we stored tens of thousands of documents, and it worked very well for us.  It saved us a tremendous amount of money as we no longer sent new documents offsite.  We also retrieved many documents and either destroyed them or scanned them.

    We decided to move our reference files online.  There are probably close to 40 or 50 thousand records online now.  A file might be one simple anagram, or it might be a multi-volume hundred-page scan.  We tied the record to the LIS, so it did a look-up of the patient info.  The documents were all scanned locally and took up many hundreds of gigabytes.

    It would be not easy to make this information both secure and backed up offsite AND available onsite during a downtime.  We had downtime reports we would rely on and decided to forgo having the actual workup available.

    2024 Challenges

    in Site Comments / Suggestions

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    Let's start 2024 with a fun challenge!

    We will send an email to all members today letting them know.

    Let's see if we can get 100 posts in one day in January.

    We'll start with next Thursday, January 4, 2024.

    We'd have over eight thousand posts if every active member made just one post!

    Don't save up; please post between now and next Thursday.  :)

    Need some ideas?

    • Reply to something in the unanswered topics list.
    • If it's your first post, make an introduction.
    • Start a new topic with something you've been curious about.

    BloodBankTalk: Stem cell therapy clinics

    in Question of the Day

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    Stem cell therapy clinics

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