Armed Services Blood Program Defense Blood Standard System

摘要

This report is the second in a series regarding the Armed Services Blood Program. The mission of the Armed Services Blood Program is to provide quality blood products, blood substitutes, and services for all worldwide DoD customers in peacetime, in wartime, and during contingency operations. The Defense Blood Standard System (DBSS) is the automated information system used by Blood Program Organizations to maintain and track blood donations and blood product inventories. It provides blood product management for fresh and frozen blood products during blood collection, processing, testing, shipping, and storage. It also provides transfusion service management and system administration. DBSS is unique because it is the only automated information system within the Military Health System that is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration as a Class II Medical Device. The Class II Medical Device designation gives the Food and Drug Administration the authority to inspect the development and use of DBSS. The DBSS Project Office, under the Clinical Information Technology Program Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), is responsible for managing the system. Management and support costs for DBSS for FYs 1991 through 2000 totaled $70.1 million. Projected costs for FYs 2001 through 2007 are $43.8 million.