Effective blood bank management based on RFID in real time systems

The major concern for hospitals and blood centres today is patient safety, minimal wastage of blood products and minimization of blood transfusion errors. The traditional blood-handling process in many hospitals involves a number of manual steps with high probability of human mistakes. To ensure absolute quality of services, more and more hospitals and blood banks now require modern and advanced solutions to provide high levels of accuracy, automation and reliability. In this paper, we present a RFID based Blood bank management system that aims at reducing the number of transfusion errors. We have developed a prototype of the system using 13.56 MHz HF RFID reader/writer. This system continuously tracks the inventory status of the blood bank in real time and has cross-point checks at various locations to ensure correct transfusion.