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Blood Bank has been delegated the role Of tissue storage and tracking. Our

LIS is Meditech. Has anyone been able to utilize Meditech for this purpose or must a separate computer system be used for tracking. Any help would be appreciated.

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I don't know about MediTech specifically, but have heard about frankensteining being done with other BB systems to store tissues. Issues come up with the tracking and traceability of products - especially when there are multiple storage locations. Also auditing/reporting is more complicated.

Mediware's customers have done multiple workaround and based on their feedback have built a system specifically for bones/tissues to improve efficiency and safety standards. Steve Sedlock can give you additional information if desired.

steve.sedlock@mediware.com

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The mediware system will not be available until May. We are currently looking at three other vendor of a dedicated (out of the box) tissue system. Tissue Track Core, QSight and Rosebud. Rosebud is a client/server system but the other two are web-based. We have not yet gotten a demo of "QSight" but the Rosebud system doesn't have the ability to drop billing on implant/explant and the Track Core may be able to, but the details were unclear to us and we are still seeking clarification. The QSight product is by Owens and Minor and incorporates the technology of the former "Cyrus" system that the bought. You can shoe-horn tissues into a blood bank system rather handily and with get effectiveness, but the dedicated system allow the nurses/surgeons in the operating rooms to scan tissues as they implant them, in real time, and gather other data (like reconstitution) without resorting to paper logs.

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We have been tracking tissues with Meditech for a number of years. We built the product "Tissue" into our products. They are entered in by the "Lots" routine which creates an unique ID number for our tracking purposes at that point. Also, when we enter it into the system, we enter all the tracking information we can find into the "comments" area. This would include : type of tissue (Opteform disc, Graft jacket, etc), size listed on package, any donor ID numbers, any other info on package. The lot number will be asked for in the normal entering of the unit.

The unit is then issued through Meditech the same as a blood product and "tranfusion" data is entered after it is implanted.

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We have been tracking tissues with Meditech for a number of years. We built the product "Tissue" into our products. They are entered in by the "Lots" routine ....

Any reason why you decided to use the "Lots" routine instead of an actual product?......we are working on using our Meditech system to track bones and tissues, but as a product (where we enter packed cells, FFP, cryo and Platelets). Any words of advise?

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We enter them in under "Lots" routine because they do not always come to us with an unique identifier that is readily usable. By using the "lots" routine we are able to assign a "T" number, or "CC" number, or whatever and still retain the lot information. Any other info is entered into the comments area.

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We have been using Meditech to track tissues for 5 years. We utilize LOTS for some tissues (DBM) but products for most of the tissues. We have been inspected by the FDA, JOCAH and AABB and have not had any problems. I have recently been involved in a conference call with Meditech Blood Bank specialists. Meditech is trying to get all the information to send to FDA in order for the system to be actually licensed for that use. We do not "manufacture or test" the tissues. We only store, issue and track. The OR orders the tissue in Meditech and we issue and track through the BB system.

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We use Meditech to track our tissues. Almost all are in as Products. There was one kind we had to enter as "Lots" because it used the same lot number for several.

It was hard work to set it up initially (entering all the product codes).

Sometimes I called it something different than surgery would call it, so that caused some confusion.

We have excellent cooperation from our surgery department for this. We have been through several inspections without problems.

Linda Frederick

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We use Meditech for tissues as well. I just had to define 60 or 70 new products. We order them, assign them and issue them by specific product name. I'm in the process of trying to get Meditech to add these products to their EMR ID list as well.

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We prefer to enter products in batch. We assign each product a unique "donor" number. Our process is to enter the requisition, assign and issue. We treat tissue products the same as we would an FFP (except for the thawing of course).

We store the refrigerated and frozen products in Blood Bank. OR keeps the room temp products. The products we keep are ordered, assigned and issued before they leave the dept. OR filles out a paper requisition for the room temp products and we enter a req., assign and issue those after the fact.

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