Radical change is coming to the hospital-blood center relationship. The cause will be a new guidance from the FDA requiring re-testing of platelets after 3 days of storage. The guidance is currently a draft, but industry insiders expect its release in final form this spring or summer.
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The health of the United States depends on blood and tech. Blood and blood products play a key and irreplaceable role in medicine: 5 million people per year receive transfusions of red blood cells, clotting factors or plasma products. Traditionally, the technological aspects of blood has long focused on improving the safety, collection, and storage of blood.
Read MoreImagine if street lights shut off, taps ran dry, or the internet switched off every year during the holidays. The chaos caused by disruptions in utilities would be immense. That is just what happens, though, with the nation’s blood supply
Read MoreThe Big Data revolution is coming to the blood banking community. Other areas of health care have gradually embraced the transformative power of large-scale data collection and analysis. The impact of this change is difficult to predict, but will almost certainly include reductions in wasted units and improvements in distribution.
Read MoreFor all its brutal cost in human suffering, the unfolding zika epidemic has provided a rich source of learning materials for the nation’s blood supply. In one sense, it is profoundly reassuring to the speed with which US regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and individual members of the blood supplier community have worked together to address an unfolding crisis.
Read MoreBloodbuy’s online network facilitates the efficient distribution of lifesaving blood products.
