Prelude

Prelude
Donor Management

We believe that Prelude has the potential to change the way blood centers do business. The industry has acknowledged the benefits of an automated self-administered donor interview. Prelude is the perfect solution to automate and manage the blood donation process, and it is backed by IDM's commitment to providing the highest degree of quality software in today's rapidly changing information technology environment.

Prelude contains a Self-Administered Donor Interview that guides the donor through the health history process. This automated interview provides privacy at a personalized pace, increasing chances that the donor will return to donate again. In addition, Prelude supports multi-lingual and multiple interview questionnaires, enables a flexible workflow, and can capture the donors photograph and digitized signature - all in a paperless blood donation process.

Prelude performs a real-time donor eligibility check, records examination and phlebotomy results, and conducts quality assurance review via an online, highly articulated database, ensuring greater levels of data quality, integrity and completeness.

Prelude reduces errors by eliminating the problems of missing data and calculating acceptable physical examination ranges. For the staff of the blood center, Prelude provides access to Standard Operating Policies and Procedures, global maps, and tools to monitor the entire donor room.

Prelude performs the same functions on mobile blood drives as at fixed sites, including synchronization with the main server. Prelude communicates with host donor systems to download donor, donation and deferral information and uploads all the data collected from the donation. This eliminates the need for re-entry of donation records at the blood center, resulting in substantial savings of cost and time.

Prelude utilizes Java/J2EE/EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) and Oracle 10 technologies and is IDM's first true n-tiered client/server application. The Java/J2EE platform enhances Preludes flexibility, allowing it to run on multiple operating systems.

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Key Benefits

  • Eliminate cost of third party electronic archiving of the donor record
  • Decreases cost of hardware; ability to reconfigure setup based on demand
  • Avoids duplicate donors through positive identification
  • Reduces units disposed due to missing signature
  • Ensures correct questionnaire is selected; reduces staff errors
  • Increases efficiency for donor and staff
  • Ensures more accurate responses
  • Reduces processing time with donor
  • Increases donor population
  • Aids donors in determining when they can to return to donate
  • Shortens unit labeling turn around time

Key Features

  • Enables a paperless donation process
  • Flexibility in workstations
  • Capture of Donor's photograph
  • Capture of Digital Signature
  • Determines the donor's questionnaire eligibility (i.e abbreviated)
  • Self-Administered Interview
  • Infinite layers of follow up questions
  • Date calculation
  • Alternate Questions
  • Define Terms
  • Multiple Choice Questions
  • Multi-lingual Support for health history questionnaires
  • Print deferral letters with future eligibility date
  • Captures entire donation process through Lot Release

FAQ

What operating systems can be used with Prelude ?

The product currently supports Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server and UNIX operating systems. The Prelude client application must run on Windows.

What are Prelude's hardware requirements?

Hardware requirements for the Prelude Server and the Prelude Mobile Server are:

  • Intel Pentium® IV processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 42.25 GB hard disk (18.25 GB hard disk for the mobile server)
  • CD ROM drive
  • Super VGA color monitor with display resolution of 1024 by 768
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Serial communications port
  • Laser printer
  • Network card (optionally for the mobile server with a wireless router supporting the TCP/IP protocol)

UPS - Prelude is designed for 24-hour operation. Use of an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is strongly recommended.

Network – Prelude requires a network supporting the TCP/IP protocol. Installation, configuration, electrical safety and security for the network are the customer’s responsibility. If wireless capabilities are included, then it is strongly recommended that the security issues unique to the wireless environment be carefully considered, and that measures are put in place to prevent unauthorized clients from connecting to or monitoring data transmissions over the wireless connections.

Note: All hardware must be certified to run Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft

Windows 2000® with service pack 2.

Where is the data stored?

The Prelude data is stored in a Oracle 10g database.

What peripherals are required in order to run Prelude software?

None, but Prelude can utilize peripheralsВ to increase the usability and efficiency of the software.

What are those peripherals?

Barcode scanners, Touch screen monitors/tablet PCs, Digital camera, and digitized signature tablets.

Which digitized signature tablets does Prelude support?

The product supports two models which are both made by Topaz Systems. The model numbers are T-L460-HSB and T-L462-HSB.

What barcode formats are supported in Prelude?

Codabar and ISBT 128.

Can Prelude run on a mobile device or PDA system?

The Prelude client application can run on tablet PC systems using Windows XP-tablet edition.

What is Prelude's reporting solution?

Customer's can use Oracle Discoverer or another third party reporting tool (i.e. Crystal Reports) of their choice to run reports against the Oracle data repository.