1. Blood Bank V3

2. Why not using Laboratory Domain?
“The HL7 Laboratory domain includes the provision and use of analytic services in areas such as chemistry, hematology, serology, histology, cytology, anatomic pathology, microbiology, and virology. It does not include blood bank or blood transfusion services.”

3. Blood Bank SIG
Scope
To support operational, statistical and historical information of individual and interrelated blood banks
Tracking of donor, recipient information for institutional and public health purposes (HIV,HCV etc.)
Facilitate prospective, retrospective and concurrent review process
Interchange of regional, national and possibly international information relative to procedures, regulation and standards of practice

4. Blood Bank Domain Draft
Introduction & Scope
Message Design Element Navigation
Domain Message Information Models
Storyboards
State Based Definitions
Application Roles
Trigger Events
Refined Message Information Models
Hierarchical Message Descriptions
Interactions
Interaction Indexes
By Application Role
By Trigger Event
By Message Type