Smart blood management and tracking system

Abstract

The blood bank management system is devised to store, process, analyse and retrieve information concerned with management and supply of blood bags. There are many discrepancies in the current blood management and tracking system such as stealing, hoarding and selling of blood packets at exorbitant rates at need of the hour which lead to unnecessary delay in treatments of the patients which in turn, sometimes leads to death of patients. This work deals with tracking and management of blood donated by an individual at blood banks and hospitals until it is used to cure a patient or disposed of after expiration. The donation, storage and usage of blood will be monitored and tracked so as to make sure that there is no inconsistency. Moreover, the blood packet would be inscribed by a QR code with information of the donor. With help of blockchain, we aim to achieve less redundancy in quest of availability of blood in blood banks. The stored blockchain database would be managed and could be only accessed by authorised user. The database would be accessible to all the hospitals which come under the umbrella of this arrangement. This technological advanced system aims to increase the efficiency, security and robustness of managing blood bags in current blood management and tracking System.