Claims

1. In a blood component collection facility comprising a plurality of separately operable blood component collection instruments, a system for networking the blood component collection facility comprising: a system computer comprising a memory and a communication interface, the system computer being linked to a plurality of input devices for tracking donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments with respect to one or more blood product collection procedures, the system computer also being linked to at least one administrative level computing device to monitor blood component collection activities throughout the blood component collection facility and to facilitate decision making with respect to allocation of at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments based on information regarding at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of input devices comprises a donor identifier, an operator identifier, a soft goods identifier, and a blood component collection instrument identifier to track location and activity of the donor, operator, soft goods, and blood component collection instrument.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one administrative level computing device provides operator-specific prompts based on the tracking information and monitored blood product collection activities.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein allocation of at least one of donors, operators, soft goods, and blood component collection instruments comprises assigning donors across collection bays of the blood component collection facility based on the tracking information and monitored blood product collection activities.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system computer communicates with a remote information system to transfer information from the blood component collection facility to the remote information system for storage and data analysis.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the data analysis includes predicted and actual yield analysis.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the data analysis includes data analysis to guide donor recruitment for one or more particular blood products.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the system computer configures the blood component collection instrument via download from the remote information system.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the information system pools information from multiple blood component collection facilities

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a smart device to automatically program the blood component collection instrument by presenting the smart device to the blood component collection instrument for uploading of information to the blood component collection instrument.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the smart device stores donor information including donor parameters and run parameters to program the blood component collection instrument.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the system computer is to retrieve prior collection information for the donor for use in configuring the blood component collection instrument for a blood component collection procedure.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein an operator selects a donor from a list of prior donors provided by an information system and wherein prior collection information for the selected donor is used to set up the blood component collection instrument for the blood component collection procedure.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the system computer includes a graphical dashboard for display to and interaction with a user, the graphical dashboard to provide a graphical depiction of the blood component collection facility including an arrangement of blood component collection instruments, soft goods, operators, donors, and associated status information.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the system computer is networked with a plurality of computer systems from a plurality of blood component collection facilities to form an operations and data management system to monitor the collective activities of the networked blood component collection facilities.

16. An article of manufacture comprising:a computer readable storage medium; andexecutable program instructions embodied in the computer readable storage medium that when executed by a programmable system cause the system to implement a graphical user interface for blood component collection resource management comprising:a graphical depiction of a plurality of blood component collection areas in a blood component collection facility, each depicted area comprising one or more of:a graphical indicator of blood component collection instrument status;a graphical indicator of blood component collection kit status;a graphical indicator of operator status; anda graphical indicator of donor status,the plurality of graphical indicators to convey at least one of a progress and alert for a blood component collection procedure occurring or scheduled to occur in a blood component collection area of the blood component collection facility.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein one or more of the graphical indicator comprises an alphanumeric indicator related to at least one of blood component collection instrument status, blood component collection kit status, operator status, and donor status.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein the graphical depiction generates an alarm for at least one of an administrator and a blood component collection instrument operator based on a measure of at least one of monitored blood component collection instrument status, blood component collection kit status, operator status, and donor status.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein the graphical depiction of the blood component collection facility further comprises a donor queue to identify one or more donors waiting to donate at least one blood component, the donor queue indicating a time and an intended blood component collection.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 19, wherein the donor queue is to indicate a suggested donation location among the blood component collection areas of the blood component collection facility for a donor in the donor queue.

21. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein the graphical depiction of the blood component collection facility further comprises a staff queue to identify one or more blood component collection facility staff available to assist one or more operators in the blood component collection areas, the staff queue indicating one or more blood component collection capabilities of at least one staff in the staff queue.

22. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein the executable program instructions collect aggregate information of blood component collection facility operation to route to at least one of an administrator and an operations and data management system.

23. A computer-implemented method of soft goods donation resource and data management for one or more blood collection facilities, the method comprising:electronically processing available identification and status information related to one or more resources including blood collection devices, blood collection kits, blood donors, and blood collection device operators for one or more blood collection stations;automatically analyzing each of the available identification and status information for each of the one or more resources according to one or more measurement criteria;transforming the available identification and status information analyzed for the one or more blood collection stations into a corresponding graphical indication of each of the available one or more resources;electronically outputting the corresponding graphical indication of each of the available one or more resources for the one or more blood collection stations in a graphical user interface dashboard for user review; andfacilitating resource allocation and re-allocation based on the graphical user interface dashboard.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, further comprising uploading blood collection procedure information to a data management system.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, further comprising automatically assigning a donor to a collection station and configuring a blood collection device at the collection station for blood collection from the donor.

26. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, further comprising retrieving previous blood collection data for a donor from a data management system based at least in part on a donor identifier; and configuring a blood collection device based on the previous blood collection data.