What benefits would facilities see after implementing ISBT 128?
ISBT 128 offers immediate benefits to your organization as well as the ongoing benefits of achieving greater safety, accuracy, and efficiency in your service delivery. Core benefits include: • The entire Donation Identification Number (which includes the facility identification) is encoded in a single bar code. • No duplication worldwide of a Donation Identification Number in 100 years. • Fewer system and identification errors. • Fewer misreads on automated instruments. • More specific identification of products and the ability to use the same codes for billing products as those used on the component label. • Ability to bar code the expiration time • No tracking and renumbering problems when blood is imported from another facility when the unit number is not in the same format as that used by the blood center’s computer system. • Other long term benefits include the ability to build in more process controls and continue to use the same data structures whether using bar codes or radio f
