Mediware Information Systems, Inc. (MEDW) announced that the 2012 versions of the company's core blood management software products have received updated 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration. The software products include LifeTrak and HCLL Transfusion.
The software systems are used by more than 500 hospital and blood center facilities in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Singapore to support blood donor management; blood testing, product manufacturing and distribution; and patient testing and transfusions.
Mediware said that both products were also selected by the US Department of Defense to support effective blood management in Military Health facilities worldwide.
Mediware said it has been a provider of blood management software and services for 40 years, and is credited with having the first transfusion software system 510(k) cleared for use in hospitals by the US FDA.
The company said that the product portfolio was recently expanded through the acquisition of Strategic Healthcare Group to include consulting and benchmarking that improve the utilization of blood products and help lower hospital costs.
The latest versions of Mediware blood management software cleared by the US FDA offer customers robust, enterprise-wide capabilities that enable them to operate more efficiently, while still focusing on safety and quality, the company said. This included multiple time zone and expanded multi-facility capabilities that are important in supporting large, enterprise-wide needs where critical blood and patient data is shared across multiple facilities with users seeing and processing data at local time.
According to the company, the LifeTrak software, including the Donor, Lab and Distribution modules, provides a comprehensive blood center management platform capable of supporting the collection, testing and manufacturing of blood products. LifeTrak is web-enabled on current technologies and provides a broad range of scalable solutions to support small community and hospital-based blood centers to large enterprise level blood center and laboratory testing operations.
The HCLL Transfusion software manages patient transfusion requirements, including blood specimen tests, patient lab results, blood orders and patient transfusions. With the 2012 version of the HCLL software, customers now have the option of using the software in a traditional client/server mode or leveraging an optional web-based user interface using internet browsers such as IE 7 and above.
The company noted that it will be demonstrating its full line of blood management software solutions, including LifeTrak and HCLL Transfusion, at the upcoming AABB CTTxpo in Boston, October 6-9.
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