Quality and supply chain management solutions
The increasing use of human tissue for medical treatment will require increasing transparency, registration and regulatory follow-up. Our applications enable the accurate monitoring and registration of the whole procurement – transplantation process.
TissueDB®
TissueDB® is a user-friendly tool for tissue bank management everywhere. Efficient and secure, the centralised database solution manages donor information and handles data on procurement, testing, processing and distribution. TissueDB® also enables clients to locate and order the allografts they need from other tissue establishments. TissueDB® provides a variety of statistical tools to generate easy-to-read reports on the information stored in the database. The system will trace back any tissue for its donor and processing data with just a few keystrokes. Thanks to this feature, medical professionals using TissueDB® are able to react within moments, should any adverse reaction occur.
TissueDB® is a perfect tool for accurate and safe coordination in the specialised environment of national and international co-operation between large numbers of tissue banks.
EU Directive and TissueDB®
From April 2007 all EU members have to harmonise their legislation with the standards of the EU Directive 2004/23/EU. This directive defines the general conditions and quality standards for the handling of tissues of human origin – securing full transparency of all tissue banks’ activities, exact tissue traceability and record-keeping for 30 years. TissueDB® is already fully compliant with this Directive. In addition, TissueDB® is designed with the in-built flexibility to add new features as necessary with no changes or only minor modification to the software.
Client types for TissueDB® in Finland
Out of the 25 hospital districts in Finland, 16 districts including altogether 25 hospitals hosting bone banks have chosen TissueDB as their Information Management Solution. These hospitals include 4 University Hospitals. In addition three of the central Eye-banks have chosen TissueDB.
Based on the needs defined by the clients for the use of Tissue DB, the Finnish Tissue Banks can be divided into 4 different client types.
1. Internal quality control at the Tissue Bank
- Quality control of the bank’s own tissue handling process and storage management
2. A coherent quality control system within the Hospital district and management of the joint tissue storage
- A coherent quality control system for tissue processing within the whole hospital district
- Securing adequate access to tissue within the hospital district
3. A network of hospital districts and a co-operation of tissue banks within this network
- Tissue exchange between hospital districts: coherent quality control
4. National and international tissue exchange
- Tissue exchange between national tissue banks
- Co-operation on international tissue exchange