Diagnostics

Veona Blood Bank

A complete transfusion-medicine service, already inside Veona. Donor management, group-matched inventory, crossmatch, and bedside transfusion on one patient record. No separate blood-bank system to license, host, or integrate.

Vein to veindonor to patient traceability
Group matchedFEFO by component and group
TTI release gatequarantine until cleared
One recorddonor, unit, and patient
Two-person checkat the bedside
Haemovigilancereactions and lookback
On-premiseruns through internet outages
What it does

From the donor's vein to the patient's bedside, on one safe chain.

Veona Blood Bank is a full transfusion-medicine service built into the same platform as the chart, the laboratory, billing, and stock. Register and screen donors, produce and quarantine units, clear them through transfusion-transmissible-infection screening, crossmatch against a recipient, issue under sign-off, and transfuse at the bedside with a two-person check and a full vitals timeline. Every step is traceable back to the donor and forward to the patient.

Donor management and screening

Register voluntary, family-replacement, autologous, directed, and apheresis donors on their own register, separate from the patient master index. Capture the eligibility questionnaire, haemoglobin, and vitals, then accept, defer, or permanently defer with a recorded reason and a defer-until date. Donation captures volume, method, and the collecting phlebotomist.

Donor register with searchable lookup
Pre-donation questionnaire, haemoglobin, and vitals
Accept, temporary defer, and permanent defer
Donation capture with volume and method

Donor record

One human subject, kept distinct from the patient index, with screening history, deferrals, and cumulative donation count.

Group-matched, traceable inventory

A unit is not a fungible stock lot. Each carries its ABO and Rh group, component type, single-unit identity, storage location, and expiry. Selection is first-expiry-first-out within the matched group and component, so the right unit is always offered first. Every unit traces up to its donation and donor, and forward to the patient it is transfused to.

ABO and Rh group on every unit
First-expiry-first-out by group and component
Storage locations with target temperature bands
Optional ISBT-128 or national segment number

Unit inventory

Units by group, component, expiry, status, and location, with near-expiry and low-stock-by-group surfaced.

Quarantine, infection screening, and release

Every new unit starts in quarantine. Transfusion-transmissible-infection screening for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, and malaria is signed out, and only when all markers are non-reactive does the unit release to available. Any reactive marker discards the affected units, flags the donor, and triggers a lookback across every recipient already reached.

Quarantine until infection screening clears
HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, and malaria markers
Automatic discard and donor flag on a reactive result
Lookback and recall across affected recipients

Release gate

The signed infection-screening verdict is the gate that flips a unit from quarantine to available.

Crossmatch, issue, and bedside transfusion

A clinician requests by indication and urgency; the blood bank types and screens the recipient, crossmatches candidate units, reserves the compatible ones, and issues under an electronic-signature sign-off with a cold-chain checkout. At the bedside, a two-person check and a vitals-monitoring timeline run alongside the medication record, and any adverse event raises a haemovigilance reaction.

Clinician requests, the blood bank fulfils
Typing, antibody screen, and crossmatch, each signed
Reserve, issue, and cold-chain checkout
Two-person bedside check and vitals timeline

Transfusion record

Request, crossmatch, issue, and administration on one signed chain, charted on the patient timeline.

Capabilities

Everything a dedicated blood-bank system gives you.

Donor lifecycle

Register, screen, defer, and record donations with cumulative history.

Unit production

Split a donation into whole blood, red cells, plasma, platelets, and cryoprecipitate.

Group-matched FEFO

First-expiry-first-out selection within the matched ABO, Rh, and component.

Infection screening

TTI markers signed out as the gate from quarantine to available.

Crossmatch

Immediate-spin, AHG, electronic, and saline methods, each a signed decision.

Emergency O negative

Signed, audited uncrossmatched issue for emergency and massive transfusion.

Bedside administration

Two-person check and a vitals timeline alongside the medication record.

Haemovigilance

Reaction reporting, investigation, and lookback on a recall worklist.

Expiry and low stock

Near-expiry sweeps and low-stock-by-group alerts against par levels.

How it works

From donor to bedside, end to end.

Donate and produce

A screened donor gives blood, and the donation is produced into units that enter quarantine.

Screen and release

Infection screening is signed out. When every marker is non-reactive, units release to available.

Request and crossmatch

A clinician requests by indication and urgency. The blood bank types, screens, and crossmatches candidate units.

Issue and transfuse

Compatible units are reserved, issued under sign-off, and transfused with a two-person bedside check.

Built for the realities of African blood banks

Traceable, resilient on-premise, and one record with the hospital.

Runs through internet outages

Deployed on-premise on the LAN, donor screening, inventory, and issue keep running when the internet drops.

One record, no integration tax

The blood bank shares the same patient record as the chart, the laboratory, and billing, so there is no separate system to license or interface.

Safety built in

Quarantine, infection screening, signed crossmatch, two-person bedside checks, and full vein-to-vein traceability are part of the workflow, not an add-on.

Works with

Connected to the rest of Veona.

Questions

What blood banks ask us first.

Do I need a separate blood-bank system?

No. Veona Blood Bank is a full transfusion-medicine module built into the same platform as the chart, the laboratory, billing, and stock. There is nothing separate to license, host, or integrate.

How does it keep units safe before release?

Every unit starts in quarantine and is only released to available once transfusion-transmissible-infection screening is signed out with all markers non-reactive. A reactive result discards the affected units, flags the donor, and triggers a lookback across recipients.

How is the bedside transfusion checked?

Administration runs alongside the medication record with a two-person check at the bedside and a vitals-monitoring timeline. Any adverse event raises a haemovigilance reaction tied to the unit and the patient.

Does it depend on the laboratory module?

Yes. The typing, antibody-screen, and infection-screening tests run through Veona Labs, and their results flow into the blood bank, so Blood Bank is licensed alongside Labs in the Hospital and Network editions.

See Veona Blood Bank in action.

A walkthrough tailored to your blood bank, on one record with the whole hospital.