Design of a Mobile application for Transfusion Medicine.

LUNA, DANIEL R.; ALBORNOZ, MARIO ALEJANDRO; RUBIN, LUCIANA; MARQUEZ FOSSER, SANTIAGO

Congreso; Medinfo 2017, 16th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; 2017

One of the most frequent error in transfusion medicine is thefailure in verifying the patient´s identity prior to transfusion.This paper describes the design and development of a MobileApplication (MA) for transfusion medicine. The app usesbarcode and QR reading technology for the verification of thepatient?s identity and the administration of blood componentswhen making a blood transfusion. Physicians, developers,technicians of transfusion medicine and a User CenteredDesign team participated in the design. The inclusion of endusers was fundamental to get full representativeness of theirworkflow. The project was based on agile methodologies ofproject management and software development