By David Hayes, The Kansas City Star, Mo.
Jun. 25–Mediware Information Systems today began shipping a new software system designed to keep track of organs, blood and other transplantable materials in hospitals and surgery centers.
The Lenexa medical software firm said its BiologiCare software will help health care facilities as they deal with a surge in transplants. More than 10 million transplants have been completed. More than 50 percent of U.S. hospitals now perform transplants of some kind, Mediware said in a release.
“BiologiCare is the first of its kind in a market that is new and rapidly developing,” said Kelly Mann, Mediware’s chief executive. “Until now healthcare facilities have not had specific computer systems available to assist them with the complex tracking, storage and reporting requirements of these types of tissues.”
Mediware said tracking transplantable materials has become a logistical problem at many hospitals, where those materials may be stored in a number of different places and in a number of different ways.
Mann said the problem can lead to financial losses for the health care facility.
“One customer audited their tissue inventory, which was stored in boxes and refrigerators throughout the hospital, and found that they had $40,000 worth of products that had expired,” Mann said. “This was a tremendous financial loss for this facility.”
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