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Development and Implementation of Real-Time Web-Based Dashboards in a Multisite Transfusion Service

BACKGROUND: In hospital transfusion services, visualization of blood product inventory in the form of web-based dashboards has the potential to improve the workflow and efficiency of blood product inventory management. While off-the-shelf “business intelligence” solutions by external vendors may off...

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Autores principales: Woo, Jennifer S., Suslow, Peter, Thorsen, Russell, Ma, Rosaline, Bakhtary, Sara, Moayeri, Morvarid, Nambiar, Ashok
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915257
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpi.jpi_36_18
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author Woo, Jennifer S.
Suslow, Peter
Thorsen, Russell
Ma, Rosaline
Bakhtary, Sara
Moayeri, Morvarid
Nambiar, Ashok
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Suslow, Peter
Thorsen, Russell
Ma, Rosaline
Bakhtary, Sara
Moayeri, Morvarid
Nambiar, Ashok
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description BACKGROUND: In hospital transfusion services, visualization of blood product inventory in the form of web-based dashboards has the potential to improve the workflow and efficiency of blood product inventory management. While off-the-shelf “business intelligence” solutions by external vendors may offer the ability to display and analyze blood bank inventory data, laboratories may lack resources to readily access this technology. Using in-house talent, our transfusion service developed real-time, web-based dashboards to replace manual processes for managing both blood product inventory and cooler tracking at two large academic hospital blood banks. METHODS: Dashboards were developed using Hypertext Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets, and Hypertext Preprocessor scripting/programming languages. Data are extracted in real time from Sunquest (v7.3) Laboratory Information Systems Database (InterSystems Cache) and are refreshed every 2 min. Data are hosted internally by our institution's web servers and are accessed on a webpage via Microsoft Group Policy shortcuts. RESULTS: Dashboards were designed and implemented to provide a fully customizable, dynamic, and secure method of displaying blood product inventory and blood product cooler status. Transfusion service staff utilized dashboard data to maintain adequate blood product supply, modify blood product replacement orders to prevent excess inventory, and transfer short-dated blood products between our facilities to minimize wastage. CONCLUSIONS: Dashboard technology can be readily implemented at hospital transfusion services with minimal capital expenditure. The implementation of real-time web-based dashboards for blood product inventory and cooler management at our centers facilitated on-demand blood product monitoring and replaced a tedious, manual process with a user-friendly and intuitive electronic tool.
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spelling pubmed-63964292019-03-26 Development and Implementation of Real-Time Web-Based Dashboards in a Multisite Transfusion Service Woo, Jennifer S. Suslow, Peter Thorsen, Russell Ma, Rosaline Bakhtary, Sara Moayeri, Morvarid Nambiar, Ashok J Pathol Inform Technical Note BACKGROUND: In hospital transfusion services, visualization of blood product inventory in the form of web-based dashboards has the potential to improve the workflow and efficiency of blood product inventory management. While off-the-shelf “business intelligence” solutions by external vendors may offer the ability to display and analyze blood bank inventory data, laboratories may lack resources to readily access this technology. Using in-house talent, our transfusion service developed real-time, web-based dashboards to replace manual processes for managing both blood product inventory and cooler tracking at two large academic hospital blood banks. METHODS: Dashboards were developed using Hypertext Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets, and Hypertext Preprocessor scripting/programming languages. Data are extracted in real time from Sunquest (v7.3) Laboratory Information Systems Database (InterSystems Cache) and are refreshed every 2 min. Data are hosted internally by our institution's web servers and are accessed on a webpage via Microsoft Group Policy shortcuts. RESULTS: Dashboards were designed and implemented to provide a fully customizable, dynamic, and secure method of displaying blood product inventory and blood product cooler status. Transfusion service staff utilized dashboard data to maintain adequate blood product supply, modify blood product replacement orders to prevent excess inventory, and transfer short-dated blood products between our facilities to minimize wastage. CONCLUSIONS: Dashboard technology can be readily implemented at hospital transfusion services with minimal capital expenditure. The implementation of real-time web-based dashboards for blood product inventory and cooler management at our centers facilitated on-demand blood product monitoring and replaced a tedious, manual process with a user-friendly and intuitive electronic tool. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6396429/ /pubmed/30915257 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpi.jpi_36_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pathology Informatics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ma, Rosaline
Bakhtary, Sara
Moayeri, Morvarid
Nambiar, Ashok
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title_fullStr Development and Implementation of Real-Time Web-Based Dashboards in a Multisite Transfusion Service
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title_short Development and Implementation of Real-Time Web-Based Dashboards in a Multisite Transfusion Service
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915257
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpi.jpi_36_18
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