INTRODUCTION

Blood bank is a place where blood bag that is collected from blood donation events is stored in one
place. The term “blood bank” refers to a division of a hospital laboratory where the storage of blood
product occurs and where proper testing is performed to reduce the risk of transfusion related events
(Vikas Kulshreshtha, Sharad Maheshwari). Pathology Department is one of the most important
departments in Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital (HSNZ). It processes blood that will be supplied to the
patients in HSNZ according to their needs. Before the blood is supplied to the patients, the blood will
undergo several tests to ensure that the blood receiver is not infected by serious diseases. There are a
few units operating in this department such as Blood House Unit, Blood Transfusion Unit, and Blood
Distribution Unit. Every month, HSNZ will organize blood donation event which is one of the way they
can increase the blood stock. After the blood donation events, the blood bags that they obtained will
undergo tests. All of the blood received at the blood donation events must be managed thoroughly and
systematically to avoid patient who need the blood infected by any viruses or diseases. Blood Bank
Management System (BBMS) is a web based system that can assists the information of blood bag during
its handling in the blood bank. With this system, the user of this system can key in the result of blood
test that has been conducted to each of the blood bag received by the blood bank. The result of test will
indicate whether the blood bag can be delivered to patient or not. From this system, there are several
type of report that can be generated such as blood stock report, donor’s gender report and the total of
blood donation according to months and year. The system also can give the information to the donor
about blood analysis test result for each time the donor makes contribution. Hence, BBMS will make the
blood bank stock more systematic and manageable.
Abstract
Blood Donor Information System is to create a Computerized Information about the donor and Hospitals
that are related to donating the blood. Through this System any person who is interested in donating
the blood can register himself in the same way, if any hospitals wants to register itself with this System
that can also register. And the purpose of my System is registering blood donors, and maintain their
details. Not only had those things, using my system easily contact the donors in a critical or emergency
situation. Because this system giving more features to the clients or the hospitals or the blood camp
groups.

And I have gathered some information in the internet and some ideas given by the project supervisors.
And this Project Document will cover each Stages of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLF), and
some other important objectives, scope, and motivation of the project.

Computerized systems as compared to Paper record Systems are time consuming, laborious, and costly.
This paper introduces the review of the main features, merits and demerits provided by the existing
Computer-Based Information System for Blood Banks. This study shows the comparison of various
existing system and providing some more idea about the computerized system.
 PROBLEM STATEMENT

The percentage of people donating blood is increasing day by day due to awareness to donate blood for
those needed. The blood received have to be managed thoroughly so that there will be no negative
effect to the blood receiver once they received blood. From the observations and interview conducted
that have been made during the user requirements phase, it was found out that there is no interaction
medium between HSNZ and the public to announce their blood donation schedule. The blood donation
event schedule is normally advertised to the public so that they are aware of the blood donation
campaign period. At the blood house unit, the staffs and nurses only are informed about the blood
donation schedule for each month on the whiteboard at the blood house. So they are using manual way
in informing the schedule. The problem arises when the space provided is not enough. The medium
used to inform the staff about the schedule of the month is using whiteboard and it is written by using
whiteboard marker. Therefore, the writing tends to become unclear. The public did not have knowledge
about blood donation. There are brochures distributed to the donor but not to the public because they
only available at blood donation house. Hence, the public are not getting any details information about
blood donation unless they go to the blood donation house. To oversee these, the BBMS interface will
be constructed to cater for the blood house staff to post about the blood donation events. These details
can be viewed by the public so that they know and they can allocate some time to go and donate their
blood. To ensure that the blood donation event schedule is informed among the blood house staff,
there will be an interface for staff to be able to fill in details and list of location of the blood donation
events for each month. The data inserted will be displayed to the other blood donation staffs such as
nurse so that everyone can be notified about the blood donation event schedule even though the staff’s
are not available at the HSNZ. By having this function in BBMS, it is easier for the blood staff to make
any correction if there is any incorrect details and make any changes if there is any changes in location
or specified date. One of the factor of the public afraid to donate their blood is they believe in myths.
The myths that they always believe are, if they donate their blood they will become fat and if they
donate their blood, their blood will become less in total of amount and they will become pale. This
BBMS should provide more information in order to educate the public so that they know blood donation
will not give bad effects. By giving awareness to the public, this will increase volunteers to donate their
blood.
 LITERATURE REVIEW

There are three systems that have been selected as benchmark for the development of BBMS. They are
the Blood Bank India (BBI) at http://www.bloodbankindia.net, Lions Blood Bank & Research Foundation
(LBBRF) from http://www.lionsbloodbank.net/ and a previous BBMS standalone version. The website for
Blood Bank India is a website that provides the facility for the donor to register by him or herself as a
blood donor. Only citizen in India can register to the system. It also provides a feature where a person or
hospital can request the blood bag or blood stock from the Blood Bank India. LBBRF is a private
organization that functions as a place to donate blood. They give a charge to the person or patient that
is in needs of blood. However, the money that they collected is not for the profit for them but for
recover the expenses incurred in recruiting and educating donors. This is also to ensure that the blood
transfusion is as safe as possible. In Lions Bank & Research Foundation, They will make sure the
availability of blood stock in their blood bank. They also published the current status of blood stock in
their website homepage. This is for them to keep the website visitor especially donor informed about
the needs of blood. They also inform the donor and the public where and when is their next event.
However, this blood bank does not provide any facility for the donor and the patient. Therefore, they
cannot know how many times that they have donated their blood. As for the donor, they cannot know
their blood screening result for each time they donate their blood. Without having this function in the
system, the donor cannot monitor his or her health condition. This will make the donor become
unaware of their health condition. Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 illustrate the web interface design for BBI and LBBRF
while Fig. 3 shows the previous BBMS standalone version.
 METHODOLOGY

Methodology that has been chose to develop BBMS is the Rational Unified process (RUP) from Noushin
Ashrafi, & Hessam Ashrafi and Rational Unified Process at
www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/.../1251_bestpractices. By using this methodology, if there is
any changes in requirement or misunderstood the requirements given by the Pathology Department
(PD) can be implemented in the next iteration of certain phase. Fig. 5 shows the phases of RUP. As we
can see here, there are four phases involved in this methodology. They are Inception, Elaboration,
Construction, and Transition. Fig. 5. RUP Methodology 4.1. Results Fig. 6 shows the main page of the
BBMS. This interface can be accessed by all of the users of this system. This interface is accessible not
only for the registered user of the system bt also can be access by the public. Fig. 7 shows the example
of the information that can be obtained by the registered user and public. The information that the
public can get are related to blood donation such as advantages of donating blood, what blood group
can donate to which blood group, and what are the advantages that the donor get from HSNZ according
to how frequent the donor donate their blood. Advance Test Result and History Fig. 8 shows the
homepage for the Donor. The Donor can view the blood donation schedule, blood donation history and
also blood test results for each of the blood donation that has been made. The Donor can view the
advance blood test that has been made to his or her blood during the donation. He or she also can view
the previous blood advance test. By having this function, the Donor can monitor his or her health every
time he or she donates blood. Fig. 9 shows the interface of this function. Blood test function is
accessible by the Laboratory Staff. The laboratory staff will enter the blood test result. If one of the
results of critical tests which are HIV, Syphilis and Viruses is positive, the overall test will be failed.
Blood Request History Blood request function is for the Doctor. If the doctor is in the need of blood to
fulfil the patients need, the doctor needs to request for the blood bag. The doctor also can view the
request history. In the request history, the Doctor can view the status of the blood request .
 CONCLUSION

BBMS is a management system that is developed to manage blood bank in HSNZ. The BBMS had been
developed in accordance to HSNZ user requirement. This is to make sure that the management of the
blood stock became effective, systematic and meeting user requirements. The functional services
provided in the current version are profile management, blood stock management, and blood analysis
management. In the next phase we will develop a portable and modified BBMS version based on
android OS.