Chairperson and committee
Chairperson: Suzanne Butch (USA)
Vice Chair: Shankar Goudar (USA)
Secretary: Jennifer Davies (UK)
Taskforce Chairs
- Wayne Bolton (Australia), RFID Task Force Chair
- Shankar Goudar (USA), Interface Task Force Chair
- Karen Moniz (USA) Traceability Task Force Chair
- Shankar Goudar (USA), Security Task Force Chair
- Jennifer Davies (UK), Education Task Force Chair
- Jolanta Antioniewicz-Papis (Poland), ICCBBA TAG Representative
Membership
The Working Party has successfully recruited five to replace our retiring members. There are 24 members from 11 countries around the world. The wp continues to recruit new members.
Meetings and Teleconferences
A face-to-face meeting was held in Barcelona. The group held four teleconferences.
Activities during the period
- The Task Force on RFID is finalizing a revision of the RFID standards for posting on the web pages and sending a letter to Vox Sanguinis to announce the availability of the revised standard.
- The goals of the Traceability Task Force have been revised to incorporate the Interface Task Force goals. The combined Task Force participates in the development of the HL7 FHIR® Standard, which enhances the transfer of information from the laboratory to the patient's medical record, ensuring traceability and promoting its adoption.
- The goal of the Security Task Force has been to make available in the education section of the web page resources for policies and procedures for implementing, updating and evaluating security in a facility.
- The Education Task Force has added materials and links to the WPIT web pages.
- The WPIT provided nine focus articles for the January 2025 issue of Transfusion Today.
- The WPIT members submitted session proposals and an abstract for the Milan meeting.
Future Projects
The topics under discussion for projects include:
- Digital literacy
- Surveying
- Compliance with Blood Centre and Transfusion Centre software with international standards
- Standards used
- What standards do the software vendors follow
- Short videos
-Interoperability
- Webinars
- Implementation support donor centre and transfusion service software in resource limited settings
- Webinars
- Creating short videos on educational topics
