# US 2014/0195254 A1 · Demand-driven blood bank enterprise planning and management system

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- Number: US 2014/0195254 A1
- Document ID: US20140195254A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 13/734,229
- Filed: 2013-01-04
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Earliest claimed: 2013-01-04
- Inventors: Richard McElroy
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140195254A1

## CPC

- G16H 40/20: for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

## Abstract

A method for optimizing collection and usage of a necessary bodily fluid comprises determining an historical demand of the bodily fluid, measuring a first external contingent factor, creating a donor recruitment plan based at least in part on the historical demand and the external contingent factor, implementing the donor recruitment plan to recruit a number of donors, determining estimated units based at least in part on the number of donors and a second external contingent factor, collecting total units of the necessary bodily fluid, and calculating a variance between the total units and the estimated units to produce a real-time demand driven adjustment.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for optimizing collection and usage of a necessary bodily fluid, comprising:
determining an historical demand of the bodily fluid;
measuring a first external contingent factor;
creating a donor recruitment plan based at least in part on the historical demand and the external contingent factor;
implementing the donor recruitment plan to recruit a number of donors;
determining estimated units based at least in part on the number of donors and a second external contingent factor;
collecting total units of the necessary bodily fluid; and
calculating a variance between the total units and the estimated units to produce a real-time demand driven adjustment.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the donor recruitment plan comprises a fixed site plan and the step of determining estimated units depends at least in part on the real-time demand driven adjustment.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the donor recruitment plan comprises a mobile site plan and the step of determining estimated units depends at least in part on a donor show rate.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the donor recruitment plan comprises a mobile site plan and the step of determining estimated units depends at least in part on a donor deferral rate.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first external contingent factor comprises a community economic development plan.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first external contingent factor comprises a community healthcare forecast.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first external contingent factor comprises a demographic study.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second external contingent factor comprises a donor walk-in historical profile by week day.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second external contingent factor comprises a donor show rate.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second external contingent factor comprises a donor deferral rate.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second external contingent factor comprises a collection loss.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second external contingent factor comprises a lab loss.

### Claim 13

A method for optimizing collection and usage of a necessary bodily fluid, comprising:
a) determining an historical demand of the bodily fluid;
b) measuring a first external contingent factor;
c) determining real-time changes to the historical demand;
d) creating a fixed donor recruitment plan and a mobile donor recruitment plan based at least in part on the historical demand, the external contingent factor, and the real-time changes to the historical demand;
e) implementing the fixed donor recruitment plan to recruit a fixed number of donors;
f) determining estimated fixed units based at least in part on the fixed number of donors and a second external contingent factor;
g) implementing the mobile donor recruitment plan to recruit a mobile number of donors;
h) determining estimated mobile units based at least in part on the mobile number of donors and a third external contingent factor;
i) collecting total units of the necessary bodily fluid; and
j) calculating a variance between the total units, the estimated fixed units, and the estimated mobile units to produce a first real-time demand-driven adjustment.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising the steps of:
k) monitoring actual real-time demand;
l) calculating a second variance between total units and the actual real-time demand to produce a second real-time demand-driven adjustment; and
m) feeding back the first and second real-time demand-driven adjustments into step d) so that the step of creating in step d) depends at least in part on the first and second real-time demand-driven adjustments.