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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 15, 2006
DAYTON, OH-Community Blood Center (CBC) is the first blood center in the nation to roll out a new donor room management system called Prelude. Prelude will be introduced in stages beginning today and will transform the current paper-based process to an electronic one. The system will guide donors through the self-administered donor interview and health history on a computerized touch screen. Additionally, once Prelude is fully implemented, CBC will no longer track donors by using their Social Security Numbers. A unique number will be assigned to each donor.
CBC’s main location in downtown Dayton, 349 S. Main St., is the first to implement Prelude and will be followed by CBC’s other branch locations in Middletown, Springfield, West Chester and Richmond, IN sometime this summer. Mobile blood drives will be the last to implement Prelude. CBC signed on as a Prelude Beta Site in early 2005 and has provided vital feedback on the system.
“We are pleased to be able to partner with IDM to bring Prelude into our center,” stated Jodi Minneman, Chief Operating Officer of Blood Services for Community Blood Center. “Prelude offers our donors the opportunity for improved service through a fully automated screening process.”
Donors who used the system the week of May 8th in the validation phase of the implementation process had positive reactions to the new technology overall and some feedback that will help CBC improve the donor’s experience with the system.
Prelude was developed by Information Data Management, Inc. (IDM), a leader in medical software development and support. Prelude was designed to automate and manage the blood donation process. Prelude contains a Computer Assisted Self-Administered Donor Interview which guides the donor through the health history process. In addition, Prelude has the capability to support multi-lingual and multiple interview questionnaires including the standard and abbreviated Uniform Donor History Questionnaire (UDHQ).
Prelude supports a paperless blood donation process by performing a donor eligibility check; the recording of health history, examination & phlebotomy results; and the capture of a donor’s photograph and digitized signature. Prelude enforces and documents the lot release of every donation record; it reduces errors by preventing missing data and assures all donors have acceptable physical examination results.
Prelude gives remote mobile blood drives the same functions as fixed sites and synchronizes information with the main server. Prelude communicates with host donor systems downloading donor, donation and deferral information and uploading all the data collected from the donation. To ensure the security of the donor information, the database is encrypted.
About IDM: Since 1979, blood establishments throughout the world have depended on IDM developed software. IDM’s knowledge-based insight coupled with their creative vision allows them to continually produce advanced solutions for the industry. Its product line continues to aid customers in donor management and recruitment, blood component management and laboratory testing. IDM’s systems maximize staff productivity, assist with regulatory compliance, optimize donor resource management and provide analytical reports to continually improve operations for their customers. For information about IDM’s products and services, please call 800-249-4276, e-mail: info@idm.com or visit our web site at http://www.idm.com.
About CBC/CTS: Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services (CBC/CTS), an independent, not-for-profit organization, is ISO 9001:2000 Registered. Community Blood Center is the sole provider of blood components to twenty-five hospitals in the Miami (Ohio) and Whitewater (Indiana) Valleys. Community Tissue Services serves the public through recovery, processing and distribution of human tissue donations used for transplantation. Community Tissue Services is comprised of eight regional offices: Dayton, Ohio (Corporate Headquarters); Fort Worth, Texas; Fresno, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Toledo, Ohio and Memphis, Tennessee with satellite offices in Boise, Idaho, Medford, Oregon and Connersville, Indiana. For more information about Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services, visit www.cbccts.org.
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