Myella

Hi Karen, We are just waiting for the interface paperworks and the training. Do you mind if I contact you? Would you like to share your email? Thanks, Myella

Does anyone have experience interfaceing Echo with Sunquest? Would you mind sharing your experience, difficulties, and any guidance when interfacing with Sunquest system? Thanks, Myella

Our facility is going to upgrade from (Misys) Sunquest 6.1 to V 6.3. This validation software is new to me. I am very much interested if having a software validate the blood bank information system is acceptable by FDA and AABB. If it does meet the regulation, I would like to know about STS Quality Advantage and Cyrano software. How much is the cost, contact information or websites. Will this take the place of running test validation script performed by staff? I appreciate any information from anyone.

I will be working with a vendor to do our Misys validation. I will be writing all the computer procedures in the blood bank. I would like to get some tips or guidelines from anyone who've done the Misys validation. Also, what type of computer SOPs do we need to have. Thanks in advance.

I couldn't agree more! This website has flourished tremendously and has delivered outstanding information. I find it very user friendly. And so is the website master. KUDOS to you cliff. Now, what do you do in your spare time? LOL.

Can anybody explain to me the reason why in the healthcare setting, only nurses are qualified to be in the quality assurance department of the overall hospital? It's always that you should have a BS in Nursing as the job requirement! And from what I hear, the Hospital QA department where I work keeps on acquiring more people to do QA. No wonder there's a shortage of nurses! Yet, in the Blood Bank, it's so difficult to get extra help to do QA activities. I think Blood Bankers or CLS have a better perspective than Nurses anyways when it comes to quality and statistics. What do you people think?

How did the repeat Kell antigen typed come out? It might have been negative (80% are usually Kell neg) and the repeat crossmatches compatible. A written lettergram about the mistake might be sufficient at this time. Maybe putting some work restriction and monitor for 1-3 months, if more error occurs. According to studies, it's been shown that 80% of errors are management controllable and 20% of errors are human controllable. People don't want to make mistakes. It is different if it is due to gross negligence or intentional. Is your system error-proof? It might have been an accident waiting to happen. Take a good look at your system before jumping into conclusion.

You're right, Larry. It may be true that it is declining in manufacturing and other sectors of industry. However, since I believe that Healthcare industry has been lagging in the quality movement, it is just creeping into our industry. This is probably due to the realization that medical errors is on the rise and something has to be done to correct and prevent it. Hopefully, this is what's happening so that it will be good for us who are already ahead in the quality field.

Panel cells are the only ones that we don't do QC on. We have four racks of reagents and we alternate performing daily reagent QC on 2 racks each day against a commercial RQC reagents. We parallel test all new lots before putting them into use.

We have the same policy that ConwaySBB had in the years past. We still currently perform Du testing on all patients and our cut off is <2+ to call it Rh neg. We also have Hemocare computer system. I haven't encountered this situation since we went live with Hemocare. Although, I think it will be printed out in the exception report.

I am also interested in seeing how your access is set-up. If willing to share, please send to maharlikan@aol.com . Thanks.

Hi Cliff, We have a compliance officer in our lab that was also created about the same time yours did. It was also the corrective action due to our FDA deficiency for not meeting having a compliance officer in the blood bank or something. The problem is, that compliance officer's duties is now mainly overseeing the whole laboratory. I am a bench tech who is doing most of the blood bank QA whenever I am pulled from the bench. They hardly give me the time to do it, so our Quality Program is not in compliance if someone really takes a good look during an inspection. We are also a teaching institution and a trauma center. Our size is probably almost the same and we have a small donor center. I think we transfused a little more than your facility. Do you also oversee the whole laboratory, in addition to the Blood Bank?

We require a second sample for ABO confirmation if the patient's initial type is other than group O before we can issue blood. It is ordered separately, so I believe the patient is billed for it.

Can you share the name of the organization and information that gives the Six Sigma training or seminar for the healthcare industry?