As steward's of the blood supply from volunteer donors, Indiana Blood Center is committed to helping customers improve transfusion protocols and ensure best practices across all hospitals.
Appropriate Inventory Management is a blood utilization platform that allows independent blood centers and their member hospitals to collect and track data. Accessed online and available to hospitals supplied by independent blood centers, AIM allows for local and national benchmarking to reveal best practices for inventory management and product utilization. Hospitals benefit from an internal tracking module showing blood usage by service line or department, by hospital campus or by physician – limited only by the degree of detailed data each hospital inputs. Like systems in Europe netted a 16 percent decrease in the utilization of red blood cells.
The benefit to Indiana Blood Center is the daily data that shows supplies here and throughout our service territory. The ultimate win, of course, is for the patient who benefits from a truly statewide tracking system, another layer of transparency within the broader healthcare system and the promise of improved utilization of the life-saving resource of donated blood and components.
Medical Advisory Committee is a committee run by the Indiana Blood Center open to hospital physicians of various specialties. The objective is to update them on what is going on at Indiana Blood Center from recruitment's and collection's point of view, sharing current blood product inventories. MAC also informs these physicians of new regulations or issues that are arising in the near future. This committee holds meetings quarterly at Indiana Blood Center's main branch.
Technical Advisory Committee is a committee run by the Indiana Blood Center open to hospital blood bank supervisors. The objective is to provide customers with an opportunity to interact with their peers and Indiana Blood Center's technical experts, including the Production, Distribution, Reference Lab and Medical staff. This committee meets the third Tuesday of every other month. These meetings were traditionally held at Indiana Blood Center's main branch, but starting in 2010 the committee began traveling to their customers for these meetings.