Getting started with Blood Bank Inventory & Safety

Blood Bank Inventory & Safety gives the transfusion service one view of blood product inventory, crossmatch and issue activity, storage temperatures and transfusion reactions across every location that holds blood. It works alongside your FDA-cleared blood bank system, which stays the place where compatibility is decided and products are released. Every excursion, reaction and investigation keeps its evidence and sign-offs, ready for inspectors and accreditation assessors.

What it is for

Most transfusion services track inventory in the blood bank system, refrigerator temperatures on chart recorders or a separate monitoring tool, and transfusion reactions on paper forms that travel from the bedside to the lab. Satellite refrigerators in surgery and emergency departments add storage locations that are hard to see from the lab. When a reaction is reported late, a temperature alarm goes unanswered, or a product's chain of custody has a gap, the evidence an inspector asks for has to be reconstructed from several records.

• Inventory, crossmatched units and expiring products are hard to see across locations
• Temperature excursions and their dispositions are recorded on separate logs
• Transfusion reaction reports arrive late or incomplete from clinical areas
• Investigations, deviation reports and medical director reviews are tracked by hand

Who uses it

• Transfusion service and blood bank laboratories in hospitals and health systems
• Blood bank supervisors and medical laboratory scientists
• Transfusion service medical directors and transfusion safety officers
• Nursing and clinical areas that transfuse blood and report reactions
• Quality managers preparing for FDA, CAP, AABB and Joint Commission review

Before you start

• Your organization licenses Blood Bank Inventory & Safety from Moraph.
• A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
• Access to Blood Bank Inventory & Safety in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
• For setup: the product administrator role.

Steps to get started

1. Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.

2. Open Blood Bank Inventory & Safety from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.

3. Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.

4. Product administrators: work through Set up Blood Bank Inventory & Safety before your team starts.

5. Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.

Where to go next

• Set up Blood Bank Inventory & Safety
• Everyday tasks
• Connect your systems
• Security, data and compliance
• Troubleshooting and the support guide
• Product overview on moraph.com