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BASIS User Interface

KBSI is designing and developing a Blood Availability and Safety Information System (BASIS) for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). BASIS is a web-based application that enables DHHS to gather and analyze blood collection and usage information from civilian hospitals and blood centers.  This functionality will allow DHHS to more effectively establish policies and procedures for better blood resource management.

In addition to tracking and reporting on blood inventories, BASIS also addresses a number of additional blood resource needs:

	support for emergency response,
	analysis of blood inventory excess and shortages to facilitate their optimal use,
	facilitation of collaboration and communication among the various agents in the blood supply chain,
	proactive detection of blood supply chain problems before they become critical and notification of the relevant stakeholders, and
	analytical and reporting tools for blood supply managers to analyze, detect patterns, make correlations, and forecast future blood inventory requirements.

There are primarily three types of facilities that can utilize BASIS: hospitals, blood centers, and hybrid facilities.  Using the BASIS technology’s web interface, these facilities can record both quantitative and qualitative information concerning blood supply and demand. The quantitative data entry allows users to record, for example, the number of units of blood under various categories such as Collections, Inventory, Production, Distribution to Hospitals, Receipt from Suppliers, Wastage, Outdating, Transfused, Returns, Exports to Other Locations, and Imports from Other Locations.  Qualitative data entry requires users to respond to a list of Yes and No questions designed to determine the indicators of blood supply shortages and what actions are being taken by facilities to remedy those shortages.

All data can be entered into BASIS using the tool's web interface. Users from hospitals and blood collection centers across the nation can submit, on a daily-basis, summarized blood collection and blood demand information to the DHHS that provide support for blood policy decisions at the national level. This data can then be filtered to generate web-based onscreen reports that focus on user designated blood components and blood products. BASIS is being developed by leveraging and customizing the Blood Reserve Availability Assessment, Tracking and Management System (BRAMS™) developed by KBSI.