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Our hospital is soon converting to Cerner LIS from MediTech. With the Meditech system we were able to print transfusion forms that had sticky labels printed with the forms which we would affix to the unit of blood or blood product. These labels would be printed with all of the specifics about the unit: patient name, donor unit #, blood bank I.D., medical record number of patient etc. With the Cerner system we will no longer be using these transfusion forms-apparently the only thing that will print with each unit is a paper that will have all of the unit and patient information on it-there will be no label to affix to the unit itself. I'm told that this 'paper' will somehow be attached to the unit to be sent to the floor for transfusion. This does not seem at all feasible or safe to me. Wondering how other facilities that have the Cerner LIS handle this situation. I shudder to think that units of blood may be going to nursing units with only a piece of paper attached to them as the only identifying item................
