New Blood Bank ID Solutions Improve Patient Safety and Efficiency

PDC Healthcare, an identification solutions company, has expanded its product offering for blood transfusion patient identification.

The new Securline® VeriDigit, part of the Securline® Bar Code Blood Band product line, is specially designed to support the Cerner Bridge Transfusion Administration System and features an encoded permanent bar code that requires the caregiver to scan the patient’s blood band at bedside prior to transfusion, ensuring positive patient identification. The new Securline® NICU Blood ID Tag is the first and only, patent-pending solution that identifies NICU patients for blood applications, allowing infants to stay swaddled to promote healthy development.

Securline Bar Code Blood Bands and NICU Tags feature a permanent, unique alphanumeric bar code, plus matching alphanumeric bar code labels that can be applied to draw tubes, patient charts, transfusion requisitions, and as a secondary label on IV blood bags. Securline meets the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal for blood transfusions, NPSG.01.03.01, Elements of Performance (EP), for a one-person verification process (versus two-person verification), providing greater accuracy, efficiency, and cost savings. It also meets the requirements of HIPAA for the protection of patient privacy, and the AHA to reduce the risk of lost or transferred data.

“Our blood ID solutions now serve the entire patient population, including even the most fragile patients in NICU,” said D’Albert Benoit, director of Patient ID Solutions & Global ID Initiatives for PDC Healthcare. “We’re not stopping there. Our new print-on-demand blood ID solutions for are designed to meet the healthcare market demand as it transitions to electronic medical records and from human-readable to machine-readable identification.”