Quality Control Laboratory

Provides donor testing and quality assurance testing of all manufactured products to meet all FDA-required donor screening and confirmatory assay.

BBCS Uses:

• RFID Technology for managing LVDS and PRT platelet inventory
  
• Interface between ABO Express and HemaComply for platelets and RBCs

Product Management

Known as Hospital Services at most blood centers, product management oversees inventory management and the distribution of  blood products to hospitals, air ambulances, and other blood centers.

BBCS Uses

• Use BloodHub and Biolog-ID interfaced with ABO Express
• Use RFID technology to manage platelet inventory in-house and at larger hospitals

Components Laboratory

The components laboratory is the manufacturing center for all products obtained through whole blood and apheresis donation. 

BBCS Uses:

• Each donation is electronically received in the lab using batch processing
• Use of one-click report generating in Express for label reconciliation and donor sample management
• Modification in function 264 to record equipment, supplies, and complete an immediate inspection question review
• Use RFID encoding to aid in tracking and managing products

Immunohematology Reference Laboratory (IRL)

Supports 31 hospital customers with special testing or rare red blood cell needs. Meets rare donor requests throughout the nation and around the world as part of the American Rare Donor Program.

BBCS Uses:

• Utilize ABO Express for patient testing reporting
• Interface for donor RBC molecular testing
• ABO Express calculates rare donors based on antigen frequencies

Donor Services

Blood Donor Services supports Hoxworth's lifesaving work by safely helping local community members give blood.

BBCS Uses:

• Interface between ABO Wheels and VISTA
• Interface between ABO Wheels and CMRS
• Auto upload vs. manual upload for mobile operations