Notes on running a blood bank in India: compliance, inventory, donors and the software in between.
Blood Bank Software · 29 Aug 2025
What to look for in a blood bank management system so it still fits in five years: ABDM and eRaktKosh readiness, multi-centre support and data you can export.
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Automation & Reporting · 26 Aug 2025
How to stop rebuilding the same registers and returns every month, and get statutory reports, NABH indicators and MIS out of the day's work instead.
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Inventory Management · 14 Aug 2025
Where a spreadsheet breaks down for blood inventory: no audit trail, no enforced release rules, no expiry action, and no way to prove who changed a value.
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Compliance & Accreditation · 31 Jul 2025
What an NABH assessor asks a blood centre for, which performance indicators must be computed, and how to have the evidence ready rather than reconstructed.
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Inventory Management · 29 Jul 2025
Practical inventory controls that prevent stockouts: par levels by component and group, expiry-first issue, transfers between centres and demand patterns.
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Automation & Reporting · 25 Jul 2025
How to give technicians and counter staff their time back without adding headcount, and which repetitive jobs are worth automating first.
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Blood Bank Software · 23 Jul 2025
Paper registers and spreadsheets against a blood bank management system, compared on accuracy, inspection readiness, staff time and error recovery.
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Inventory Management · 21 Jul 2025
Seven inventory mistakes that quietly cost blood centres units: no group-level view, expiry checked by eye, untested stock mixed in, discards nobody analyses.
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Automation & Reporting · 18 Jul 2025
Where automation genuinely helps in a blood centre — analyser results, register generation, expiry alerts — and where a trained person is still the control.
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Compliance & Accreditation · 16 Jul 2025
Which records the Drugs & Cosmetics Act requires a licensed blood centre to keep, how long to keep them, and how to have them ready before an inspection.
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