Safety and logistics performance evaluation of a RFId system in a blood transfusion centre

This papers aims to describe the development framework of a Transfusion Medicine RFId application, which was designed in order to enhance patient safety and in order to improve blood inventory management processes. In the first part of the study, a reverse engineering of present processes (As-Is) was performed through two analysis tools: Flow Charts and Activity Forms. In the second part of the study, an RFId-based processes re-engineering has been designed in order to reduce criticalities and to improve Transfusion Medicine service performance. Then a Return on Safety (ROS) assessment was performed through a RFId-enabled processes FMECA and through Key Performance Indexes (KPI) design. ROS assessment showed a clinical risk reduction in every blood chain process.