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KBASE LIFE the complete solution for blood bank management KNOWLEDGE BASE SDN BHD innovation through knowledge engineering Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions or by making an individual (or institution) capable of different or more effective action... Peter F. Drucker The New Realities is Knowledge Base s Blood Bank Information System. It is a web based system to manage, control and monitor each and every aspect of a Blood Bank. KBASE life is the only system which offers a comprehensive solution not only to manage core blood bank activities, but that of Laboratories, Clinics, Back Office and Health Education as well. Its unique proposition is the extensive coverage across blood bank domains, offering 16 modules with seamless integration. has a state-of-the-art Lab Interfacing System - LIS which seamlessly interfaces with all modern lab machines, analyzers and equipments available today. The system has been developed by experienced consultants from the healthcare industry and conforms to international blood bank standards. is a proven solution which has been deployed at the National Blood Bank, Ministry of Health, Malaysia. The system will cater to all the functional domains of a blood bank, to accurately and effectively conduct and manage their daily activities. It helps in managing and tracking information right from Donor Recruitment to the Components Final Transfusion, including all production steps, latest lab activities, in order to address all blood banks objectives. It is fully scalable and modular. It incorporates a high level of security, user friendly and in line with international guidelines. The solution allows a common platform for a central site, remote user and mobile units to successfully complete their daily tasks. Comprehensive & Integrated Health Care Solutions

The BENEFITS of STORE QUICKLY! >>Central National Database - KBASE life is built on the premise of a central database concept and thus uses a centralized database to capture and store all necessary details such as donor details or blood inventory details. This powerful concept helps users share such details anywhere via the web; >>Provides a Comprehensive and Fully Integrated Solution - is a comprehensive solution that caters to the clinical and non-clinical functionalities of a Blood Bank. It offers 16 modules to control and manage functionalities of core blood bank activities, as well as those of Laboratories. This is quite extensive and is usually not available elsewhere. Thus, these modules are seamlessly integrated to each other to offer a holistic platform for Blood Bank Management. The System also includes comprehensive and seamless Back Office Applications integration, like Library Management, Document Management, Leave Management, Finance/ Accounting and Billing, Stock and Inventory, and many more; web-based and a comprehensive Blood Bank Solution that competes with global products improving Malaysia s image and positioning in global IT Healthcare markets. conforms to the best-in-class international standards like AABB Standards/European Standards, HL7, DICOM and many more; >>Easy Implementation at Reduced Cost and Effort - is built on a.net platform and functions on a web-based architecture. Its n-tier architecture helps to deploy the application over internet/intranet using zero-footprint. Its flexible architecture will ensure nation-wide deployment and integration with the blood banks and major hospital at lesser cost and effort when compared to other products; >>Streamlines Processes, Promotes Efficient Management and Reduces Operating Cost - provides an end-toend automated platform to manage day-to-day activities in a blood bank. Every process, right from donor registration, screening, transfusion, component production, inventory to laboratory/clinical tests and even to the back- >>Improves Malaysia s Image in the Global Healthcare Space - is completely designed and developed in Malay- FIND QUICKLY! There are no two ways about looking for information... you have to have methodologies, systems and solutions that are capable of capturing data, information and knowledge and simultaneously be able to find it and make informed decisions... lives depend on this! sia. This showcased product is Malaysia s first KBASE life office applications like Finance, HR and Billing, are streamlined and automated. This crossfunctional and holistic integration, improves

effective management of activities and thus reduces operational costs in terms of less paper work, unnecessary job duplication and keeps multiple information and reporting formats at a minimum; >>Provides Seamless Integration with other Hospital Applications, Equipments and Future Technologies - is robust and can be seamlessly integrated with other hospital applications like Hospital Information System - HIS, PACS, and Radiology Systems. At the same time, is also capable of interfacing with numerous heterogeneous lab equipment and machines across various brands and models. KBASE life is an advance system and can easily be integrated with the latest and most innovative technologies in Healthcare like RFID chips and many more; >>Provides Highly Secured Environment - Knowledge Base understand the importance of blood in saving life and thus security has been stringently designed. KBASE life maintains the clinical data of donors and patients in high confidentiality by implementing security at many levels; >>Maintains Complete Inventory and Offers Full Traceability - maintains detailed blood inventory and offers extensive search capabilities, thus reducing the time to retrieve donor/patient details. KBASE life makes Blood Bag orders and tracking, more simpler and much easier. The blood stock can be monitored at any instant and the system can alert on unavailable stock... EOQ - Economic Order Quantity Mechanism; and >>Standard Reporting - Provides comprehensive reports fulfilling the requirements of KKM. Record keeping is now better in line with statutory needs. The FEATURES of >>Comprehensive - It is a complete web-based system and offers 16 modules to manage every aspect of a fully functional blood bank; >>Easy-to-Use - It offers an intuitive and friendly interface; >>Flexible and Scalable - works in large National and Regional Blood Transfusion Centers, as well as for large and small Hospital Blood Banks; MORE FEATURES >>Security - It understand the importance of blood in saving life and thus rigid security features has been designed. All access is controlled by personal encrypted passwords. The system has 3 different access levels and are available at each option with stringent Validation Rules; >>Traceability - It provides immediate access to full background information pertaining to :- (a) Each blood component, whether or not it is currently in storage; (b) Each donor, including all donation test results and obtained components; (c) Each patient, including all blood test results and possible adverse transfusional reactions; and (d) Issue conditions to be taken with each patient; >>Robust and Integrated - It is robust and can be integrated with other applications like Total Hospital Information System - THIS, Barcode System, RFID technology and many more; >>State-of-the-Art Interfacing - is capable of being interfaced with numerous heterogeneous equipments and equipments across various brands and models; and >>Extensive Reporting Capability - offers numerous precanned reports to help generate reports at the click of a button. The system also offers ad-hoc reporting capabilities.

PROTECT the PAST CAPTURE the PRESENT ENABLE the FUTURE The COMPONENTS of is a comprehensive solution that caters to both the clinical and non-clinical function- also offers a State-of-the-Art Lab Interface System - LIS to integrate with the latest alities of a Blood Bank. consists of the following main systems : (a) Core Blood Bank; (b) Lab and Clinic Information; (c) Back Office; (d) Health Education; and (e) Lab Interfacing System - LIS. It offers several modules to control and manage all the func- and the best laboratory machines, analyzers, freezers and other Blood Bank Equipments in offering a seamless automated platform. Furthermore, all the modules are seamlessly integrated to each other to offer a holistic and highly secured platform for Blood Bank Management. These modules provide an end-to-end tionalities of a blood bank, and offer is quite extensive and usually not available elsewhere in the Health automated platform to manage all day-to-day activities Care Industry. in a blood bank. CORE BLOOD BANK LAB/CLINIC BACK OFFICE EDUCATION LIS

MODULES Registration & Management The primary responsibility of this system is to register both types of donors : regular as well as Apheresis and to collect their detail information. The system records :- >>Donor details and particulars; >>Demographic details; >>Donation history; >>Blood group details; >>Blood disorders; >>Award recognition; >>On-line database of donors detailing blood type, antigen profile, most recent donation date and comments; >>On-line donor recruitment phone lists and letters; >>Donor appointment scheduling >>On-line donor medical history questionnaires; >>On-line donor cards and thank-you letters; >>Donor inquiries; and >>Donor Statistics Report. Donor Management This system facilitates in recording, maintaining and managing various donor information like :- >>Donor personal details and particulars; >>Past history of blood transfusion and tests results; >>Donation count; >>Blood components to be prepared; and >>Blood collection details. The system works in-sync with the Blood Inventory and Stock Management module and can generate transaction bills for Hospital Kuala Lumpur, other major nation-wide blood banks, research centers, clinics and universities around Malaysia. This system has following value-added features :- >>Seamlessly Integrated - The system is linked with the mobile campaign management module to provide donor information. The system has a checking mechanism for the Apheresis donor to avoid over donation; >>Built-in formats and Templates - The system can generate ready-to-use standard formats like letters, guarantee letter, counseling letter and retest virology status and so on; and >>Bar Code System Interface - The system can interface with any bar code reader to generate various critical labels to be used for numbering samples of blood. Mobile Management This system helps to manage and control mobile Blood Bank Campaign or Programs and serves as marketing information collector. Its web-based feature works on anytime and anywhere concept and helps to capture data from the various locations. It provides following functions :- >>Scheduling - The system schedules for the various mobile sessions to be carried across Malaysia. It also provides with the scheduling of transports and staffs for the mobile sessions; >>Data Capture - It records marketing information at the time of the blood donation programs like (a) Donor details; and (b) Demographic details; and >>Identify and Isolate - It isolates existing donor regular donor based on their ID from the centralized database. Blood Inventory Management This system will record, maintain and manage following information regarding blood related stock details. Units and lot-specific products received from outside sources and donors are tracked from the time they are entered in the inventory through disposition. It provides details on following :- >>Whole blood; >>Components of bloods; >>Fractionation products; >>Shipment details including those set aside for fractionation; >>Transport details including those set aside for fractionation; >>Maintenance and servicing details of the stock equipments; >>Unit receiving; >>Test result entry; >>Unit inquiries, transfers, pooling, edits, and quarantines; >>Component and aliquot preparation with parent unit data retention; >>Compatible blood type searches; >>Bar coding capabilities; >>Inventory control; and >>Automatic cancellation of product orders and reserve units for discharged patients. Blood Component Production Management This system provides an interface to record and maintain blood components production details. It has a built-in stable multi-level quarantine system. It performs following functions :- >>Quarantine Information - Publishes true physical quarantine info from time-to-time; >>Statistics - The system has the ability to produce statistics on the fractional products and it also records fractional product details from various outside suppliers & vendors; and >>Bar Code System Interface - The system can interface with any bar code reader to generate various critical labels to be used for

numbering samples of blood like : expiry date, batch preparation number, etc. ; >>Automatic generation of collection lists, labels and worksheets; ment reports helps the healthcare organization maintain an efficient laboratory operation; and Blood Transfusion Management The responsibility of this system is to capture transfusion details for Cord Blood Transfusion, Solid Organ Transfusion or any other type of transfusion. The system in general performs following functions :- >>Data Capture - It collects detail information of donor s and recipients personal, demographics and other clinical details like: blood details, phenotypes etc. It also collects information of all stages of cross-match as anti-globulin and check cells; >>Searching and Recruitment - It helps to search and recruit potential donor; and >>Electronic Matching - It has a built-in electronic matching system which helps to locate and match required products for blood type, phenotype and other information. Clinical Management The system will be a central registry for collecting information regarding all hemophilia patients and other congenital bleeding disorders. The system will record information about the transfusion history, treatment of bleeding episode and will monitor various aspects of hemophilia patents on regular basis. It also helps to track the complete history of the products being transfused to any patient. Further, expert consultation and awareness seminars can also be organized using video conferencing. Lab Interface System ~ LIS The system has a built-in Smart Equipment Mapper that identifies the type of equipment (Analyzer, Centrifuge, Freezers, and Amplifiers etc.), analyzes respective formats and integrates with it. It also helps to generate various mission critical reports. The application features are as follows :- >>Multi-site and multi-facility specimen tracking and lab support, including automatic transfer of data among laboratories in the network; >>Accurate, up-to-the-minute patient data and change information; >>Instant comparison and statistical analysis of test results; >>Integrated inventory management and maintenance scheduling for lab equipments; and >>Storage and retrieval of historical patient data Some of the standard features of this application are as given below :- >>Rule Based Logic - The application has the rule based logic capability which can be applied to many laboratory routines. These rules help technologist establish, perform and maintain lab procedures; >>Specimen Collection and Verification - (a) User-definable specimen and collection list labels; (b) Automated specimen storage to identify location of specimen; (c) Ability to generate bar code labels for specimens; (d) Multi-site tracking; (e) Receipt of individual specimen; and (f) Re-collection and reprint label capabilities; >>Automated Worksheet - (a) Specimen arranged by priority; (b) User control of worksheet batch size and formats; (c) Addition, deletion or rearrangement of specimens; (d) Unlimited sequencing of quality control and patient specimen; and (e) Capability to reprint test results; >>Result Entry - (a) Result entry by specimen, donor or patient; (b) Instant checking and percentage differences; and (c) Ability to process multi specimens aerated for tolerance tests via analyzers; >>Result Verification - (a) Test results withheld from reporting until verified (but able to view); (b) Immediate publish of report; and (c) Automatic attachment of comments to an edited result and to the audit trail of a transaction; >>Sample reports - (a) Sample detail report; (b) Summary on medical record number; (c) User definable format capabilities; and (d) In addition to these reports, a series of manage- >>Quality Control & Quality Assurance (QC) - A series of QC features enables an organization to monitor the accuracy of test results. disclaimer KBase continually enhances products as new technologies and components become available. KBase, therefore, reserves the right to change specifications without prior notice. All features and functions and operations described herein may not be marketed in all parts of the world. All other brands and product names appearing in this publication are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. 2006 Knowledge Base Sdn Bhd. All Rights Reserved.