Procuration system for blood banks

May 28, 2009

In the past year SafeTraceTx®,  a procuration system developed for blood banks, has been upgraded. The upgrade also included the two side modules of SafeTraceTx®: Instrument Interface® and HL7®. These applications are also part of the product list of Wyndgate Technologies®.

The main properties of SafeTraceTx® product family are:

SafeTraceTx®: This software is a complex procuration system for transfusion institutes. It is the core application of the SafeTraceTx product family. Its services range from keeping track of the inventory of accessories that are used for transfusion, through the manufacturing of the blood components, up to the transfusion of blood is covered by the application.

SafeTraceTx Instrument Interface®: Nowadays, testing performed on the blood units donated by donors or patients is performed on special devices. These devices (or test instruments) receive orders for tests electronically and the results of tests are returned electronically also. The Instrument Interface® module makes the communication possible between the SafeTraceTx® core and the test devices.

SafeTraceTx HL7®: A range of different procuration systems are used by hospitals throughout the world. The communication between these individual systems  remained an unsolved problem for a long time. Health Level Seven (HL7) is an organization that has been formed to resolve this issue, and it has created a standard that is accepted by the main software vendors in the world of healthcare applications. The SafeTraceTx HL7® module is an implementation of this standard and is used to exchange of date between SafeTraceTx® core and foreign systems.

The upgrade encompassed the following areas: Correction of bugs discovered by the users during the years. Adding new functions based on user feed-back. Making the use of Oracle 10 database possible. (In the previous version only Oracle 9 was available)

Even though the release of this version is close, the development of SafeTraceTx® will not be stopped. The application will be extended with new features, to be published in a new release.

Gábor Gestner, Synthesis-Net PM