부산대학교 도서관

In the blood bank, if a blood product is closed to the expiry date, not only does it increase the risk of being scrapped but it decreases the effect of blood transfusion. Blood components in Taipei Chang Gung memorial hospital are regularly supplied from the Linkou Chang Gung memorial hospital, but more than 1,300 bags of recent blood components are not used and back to the Linkou hospital each year. The main cause of this problem is that the blood demand assessment is based on the average weekly consumption of the previous year to set the upper limit of the inventory. The assessment caused a waste of time, increased manual calculation errors, and was unable to reflect the immediate usages of blood components. Therefore, we apply a business intelligence (BI) tool to build a visual blood bank information system to improve blood components supply among branch hospitals. Not only does this system show the trend of blood usages, but also automatically alerts in color until the blood inventory reaches the lower limit. In conclusion, applying the BI blood bank information system to achieve accurate blood allocation will be more intelligent in blood supply assisting medical technologists to assess the best blood demand. This system has also further been extended to other hospitals to be assisted in blood demand assessment.