Notes on running a blood bank in India: compliance, inventory, donors and the software in between.
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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Blood Bank Software · 14 Jul 2025
The ten features worth insisting on when you evaluate blood bank management software, and the questions that show whether a vendor really has each one.
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Inventory Management · 7 Jul 2025
What blood inventory management covers — stock by component and group, expiry, quarantine and discard — and why getting it wrong costs units and patients.
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Compliance & Accreditation · 4 Jul 2025
A plain-language guide to the NABH and NBTC guidelines an Indian blood centre works under, which records each one expects, and where centres usually fall short.
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Compliance & Accreditation · 2 Jul 2025
How to keep an unbroken chain from donor registration through testing, component preparation and storage to transfusion, and what an inspector checks against.
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Blood Bank Software · 30 Jun 2025
Real-time traceability, instant reporting and compliance across multiple locations — what a register or spreadsheet can no longer keep up with, and why.
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