The Computer and Blood Banking

In the autumn of 1980, the decision was made by the responsible bodies of the German Society for Medical Documentation, Informatics and Statistics (Deutsche Gesellschaft fUr Medlzinische Dokumentation, Informatik und Statistik e.V.) to make the application of computers in blood banking and blood transfusion one of the topics to be treated at the 8th spring conference of this Society, which was then arranged to take place in TUbingen from April 9-11, 1981. The goal of the con ference was to unite application specialists and methodologists in order to assess current achievements and identify fields needing further improvement. We were fortunate to obtain the interest of the German Society for Blood Transfusion and Immunohaemat6logy D~. Roos, the head of the EDP Work study group of the Section 1 of this. Society did substantially influence the programme. Many of the papers actually reflect accomplish ments of his research and of the work study group. We also consider ourselves fortunate to win Prof. C. Mueller-Eckhardt, current president of this Society, to give an introductory address.

Contenu
Structure and Goals of Transfusion Medicine.- Functions of Patient-Oriented Blood Transfusion Services.- Tasks of a Regional Blood Transfusion Service.- Different System Approaches in Transfusion Medicine.- Central Registration of HLA-typed Blood Donors.- The Integration of Blood Transfusion Service into a Central Hospital Information System.- Experiences with Distributed Data Processing in Blood Transfusion.- The Laboratory Data System as an Integral Part of an EDP System for a Blood Donor Service.- On-line Data Aquisition in the Laboratories of the Red Cross Blood Center of Ulm (Germany).- Actual Development in Machine Readable Identification.- Principles of Economic Evaluation Manuscript not received.- Experience with a National Blood Transfusion System Integrating a Central Computer Service with Hospital-based Mini-Computer Routines.- Evaluation of EDP Systems for Transfusion Medicine: Criteria from the User's Point of View.- Systems Analysis in Regional Blood Management.- Theoretical Foundations of a Concept for a decision Support System.- A Comparison of decentralized and centralized Dispostion Systems for Red Cell Concentrates.- Restrictions concerning Automated Disposition Systems from the Medical Point of View.- Experience with a National Blood Transfusion System Integrating a Central Service with Hospital-Based Mini-Computer Routines (Posters).- Automation of Administrative and Laboratory Data Processing in a Hospital Transfusion Service Phase I: Batchwise Data Processing.- Data Processing in a Blood Bank Center.- A Laboratory System for Blood Group Typing.- Map of Data Processing in Blood Centers in Western Germany.- TRAMIDIS II Donor Disposition.- The Recipient-Information-System.- CUTRAMED Computer-assisted Transfusion Medicine at the University ofTübingen.- Computer Applications for the Blood Transfusion Service of the Göttingen University Hospital.- EDP-Project Berlin Blood Donor Service.- Pilot Project Laboratory Data Processing in Immunology and Serology.- Organizational Concept for the Data Transmission with External Data Media.- Specifications by Step-wise Refinement of the System for the Blood Donor Service.- Section Blood Donor Service with Donor's Data Sheet as Major Data Carrier.- Section Blood Product Depot with State of Product and Internal Data Transmission.- Transfusion Service Including Transfusion Record and Blood Recipient Risk Data File.- Experiences Gained from the Newly Developed Programming Language System PASCAL upon Realizing the Information System for the Clinical Blood Donor Center in Heidelberg.- The Installment of an Electronic Documentation System at the Blood Donor Service in the State Hospital in Homburg.- Experiences with the Philips-P-310-Office Computer in a University Blood-Bank.- Computer System of the German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Rheinland-Pfalz.- The EDP-System in the Blood Collection Service of the Bavarian Red Cross.- A Computer-aided Information System for the HLA-typed Regular Donors of the Bavarian Red Cross Blood Donation Service.- EDP-Assisted Donor-Recipient Selection in Histocompatibility-Matched Kidney Transplantation.- Selection of Compatible Donors and Evaluation of HLA-Seroscreening Data by Computer Programs.- Clinical Documentation System for the Hemophilia Center.- Interactive Information System of Self-Treatment in Haemophilia.- Synopsis of Donor Related Data of Various EDP Systems.- Blood Product Related Data.- Blood Recipient Related Data.- Author Index.