Blood Centers

Miller-Keystone Blood Center selects BloodRelay for IRL automation
BloodRelay automates patient and unit testing, integrates with BloodHub Phoenix, Arizona: BloodHub, the nation’s dominant supply chain ecosystem, today announced that Miller-Keystone Blood Center (MKBC) has chosen BloodRelay® v1.1.0 (BloodRelay) to help automate its Immunohematology Reference Lab (IRL). Miller-Keystone Blood Center’s desire to automate the workflows within the reference lab made BloodRelay the perfect addition […]

The Blood Connection adopts BloodRelay for IRL
BloodRelay automates patient and unit testing, integrates with BloodHub Phoenix, Arizona: BloodHub, the nation’s dominant supply chain ecosystem, today announced that The Blood Connection (TBC) will use BloodRelay® v1.1.0 (BloodRelay) to help automate its Immunohematology Reference Lab (IRL). The Blood Connection shares BloodHub’s passion for paperless automation. TBC has repeatedly implemented technology to lower costs, improve […]

FDA clears BloodRelay v1.1.0 for IRLs
BloodRelay automates patient and unit testing, integrates with BloodHub BloodHub, the nation’s dominant supply chain automation solution, today announced that BloodRelay v1.1.0 (BloodRelay) received a 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This marks BloodHub’s second successful submission of a blood establishment computer system (BECS) to the FDA. BloodRelay builds on the […]

Blood Bank of Delmarva Takes on a New Project Amid COVID Chaos
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far reaching consequences for many of our Nation’s businesses; blood banking notwithstanding. Furloughs and school closures have devastated our mobile operations. Stay at home orders have fewer donors coming into fixed sites. And near-daily rule and regulation changes regarding collections has us all reeling. While many centers are trying to […]

Bloodworks innovates INSIDE the box
For many years, Bloodworks NW has used BloodHub to engage more deeply with its hospitals, improve its operations and lower costs. In fact, Bloodworks has one of the lowest STAT % rates in the nation, which speaks volumes in terms of customer satisfaction and efficiency. Bloodworks recently launched Bioproducts, a newly formed division that supplies […]

OneBlood is on a roll with BloodHub Logistics
Inspired by visionary leadership from Lance Reed, COO & CIO and Alicia Prichard, SVP, OneBlood embraced BloodHub’s comprehensive, paperless hospital service model. After a series of major go-live events, OneBlood now has successfully deployed BloodHub’s Logistics module. This accomplishment represents a genuine breakthrough in blood supply chain management and automation. BloodHub’s Logistics brings together the […]

BloodHub User Meeting Exceeds Expectations
As most of our customers know, BloodHub’s mission is to create a better way for blood centers and hospitals to collaborate and save lives.
BloodHub delivers real time integration
Our core vision for BloodHub is a solution that delivers timely and actionable information into the supply chain. The goal is to reduce errors, improve efficiencies and drive down costs. To that end, BloodHub is built using an open architecture philosophy. We employ non-proprietary standards like Web Services and XML that facilitate value added integration […]
Measuring the Customer Experience (part 2): Fill Rate
Along with Turnaround Time (see our previous post), Fill Rate adds an important dimension to the hospital service experience. Blood centers and their hospital customers should leverage these key performance indicators to forge a long term, mutually beneficial relationship. Fill Rate answers a simple question: what percentage of the components ordered by the hospital are […]