HaemoBank/ Blood Track/ Blood Vending Machine

[sunshine 11]

Our ER wants a HaemoBank. Anyone with HaemoBank be willing to share their validation plan? Do you have it interfaced with your BB LIS? How does the bidirectional interface works? How are you using it? Any input will be greatly appreciated.

[David Saikin 1,443]

You have to have a BBIS that accommodates your vending machine.  It does the electronic xm so must speak to your BBIS.   Usually you have to have the BBIS from the same manufacturer (but I wouldn't swear to that).  Any that I've looked at were associated with BBIS vendors.

[AMcCord 1,296]

If you are using SafeTrace Tx you can link with HaemoBank. I think Soft does as well.

[David Saikin 1,443]

Also, the vendor of the device should be responsible for training your Nursing staff. (at least that was the deal for the ones I was looking at).  In the ER they will probably be using uncrossmatched I am assuming.

[Baby Banker 85]

I am told that they work best in environments with moderate to low turnover. 

[Mabel Adams 1,069]

I want to resurrent this topic to see if anyone would share their biggest challenges in using a blood vending machine.  Is it possible to adequately train the users on the Nursing side?

[r3nzoiii 1]

We have a blood vending machine (Haemobank) in the ER  for trauma and other emergency issues, and another one in L&D. For validation it was the vendor who made it possible. For the training of the ER nurses it was the vendor rep who trained the ER charge nurses and eventually they were the ones who trained their nurses.

[David Saikin 1,443]

I believe most vendors do the training for Nursing staff.

[AMcCord 1,296]

I just got a bid for setting up Haemobank and staff education is included in that pricing.

[peg 0]

On 7/3/2020 at 11:39 AM, AMcCord said:

If you are using SafeTrace Tx you can link with HaemoBank. I think Soft does as well.

WellSky Transfusion also integrates with the Haemobank.

 

[Kai 1]

We just used a 3rd party vendor to validate our HaemoBank. Korchek Technologies

[sunshine 11]

thank you.

 

[sunshine 11]

On 2/15/2021 at 9:23 AM, Kai said:

We just used a 3rd party vendor to validate our HaemoBank. Korchek Technologies

What was included  in the validation? How did they access the kiosk?

[DPruden 129]

We have a BloodTrack in our ER, we have it built only for MTP packs.  The interface is problematic with SafeTrace Tx, mostly due to the time it takes for the admissions info to cross into BloodTrack and Tx.  We have also had some challenges with training the nursing staff in the ER, but we monitor the errors and follow up with the ED educators

[Kai 1]

It was on site validation to access the kiosk thru our hospital network to the validation environment. They validated the unit selection interface from SafeTrace to the HaemoBank and scanning functionality.