TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of an information system on a regional blood service
AU - Cumming, Paul D.
AU - Kendall, Kenneth E.
AU - Carl Pegels, C.
AU - Seagle, J. P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr. Cumming is a Senior Propm Manager in charge of statistical and economic analysis and evaluation for JRB Associates, Inc., a McLean, Virginia consulting firm specializing in health, environmental and energy studies. He received his Ph.D., MBA, and B.S. degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo with concentrations in Management Systems and Science, Marketing, and Business and Economics, respec-tively. Since joining JRB four year? ago, Dr. Cumming has worked on a wide variety of planning, analysis and evaluation contracts with the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and private sector clients. Included were two blood systems contracts: one is an ongoing stardy to evaluate the impact of extending the shelf life of human blood from 21 to 35 days, and the other was concerned with the feasibility of developing a national voluntary economic data system for blood banking.
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - The impact of information systems on a specific environment, a regional blood service operating over a large geographic area, is reported here. Two related information systems have been designed and partially implemented to aid a regional blood service for a mixed urban and rural area of about two million people. The overall information system is discussed in the way it was designed and developed: by modules. The first subsystem provides inventory control, with modules for inventory tracking, short-term demand forecasting, and allocation. The other subsystem supports recruitment and blood collection, with modules for donor records, recruitment, and collections planning. We conclude with a discussion of the impact of the management information system modules on the blood service operations.
AB - The impact of information systems on a specific environment, a regional blood service operating over a large geographic area, is reported here. Two related information systems have been designed and partially implemented to aid a regional blood service for a mixed urban and rural area of about two million people. The overall information system is discussed in the way it was designed and developed: by modules. The first subsystem provides inventory control, with modules for inventory tracking, short-term demand forecasting, and allocation. The other subsystem supports recruitment and blood collection, with modules for donor records, recruitment, and collections planning. We conclude with a discussion of the impact of the management information system modules on the blood service operations.
KW - blood allocation
KW - blood collection
KW - blood collection planning
KW - blood demand forecasting
KW - blood donor recruitment
KW - blood inventory control
KW - bloodmobile scheduling
KW - control strategic planning
KW - implementation
KW - information system modules
KW - management
KW - management information system
KW - performance measurements
KW - regional blood service
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U2 - 10.1016/0378-7206(80)90002-6
DO - 10.1016/0378-7206(80)90002-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36549022437
SN - 0378-7206
VL - 3
SP - 63
EP - 72
JO - Information and Management
JF - Information and Management
IS - 2
ER -