DEVELOPMENT OF A BLOOD BANK INFORMATION RETREIVAL SYSTEM USING ANDROID APP

Abstract

Blood is the most vital element of human life. It helps to carry the oxygen to the tissues and subsequently takes away CO2 from the tissues through heart and the vascular system. The fundamental responsibility of a blood transfusion service is to provide a sufficient, save and timely supply of blood and blood products. In fulfilling this responsibility, an efficient platform must be designed to provide the synergy between hospitals, blood banks, blood donors and receptors to ensure that the act of blood donation is safe and seamless. Without quick and timely access to donor records, platforms for blood donation, access to blood bank especially in times of emergency becomes very difficult. This paper presents a report on the development of a blood retrieval system to assist in the management of blood donor records and control the distribution of blood in government hospitals. The blood bank information retrieval system provides timely, efficient and confidential and to donor records quick access to medical reports to donors. In this report, we present both a web-based and android based blood donation inventory system that aims at reducing errors in blood transfusion. We have developed a prototype of the system using Cordova and Ionic 2 Technologies for building native mobile application with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. The proposed system has inbuilt features that permits registered blood banks to send notification to registered blood donors on the application requesting for blood donation.