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Service Enhancement Presentations
HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2017

F4.7 Clinical Safety and Quality Service II 16:15 Room 421

Enhanced Registry for Safer Heart Transplant
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Tse AWS , Au DYS , Pang JYW , Yeung NKM , Lam JCK , Siu RWC , Fan KYY , Cheung NT 1
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Information Technology and Health Informatics Division, Hospital Authority Head Office, Cardiac Medical Unit, Grantham
Hospital, Hong Kong
Introduction
Comprehensive information of potential recipient in Heart Transplant Registry.
New system intelligence for retrieving latest blood group of potential heart transplant recipient.
Heart Transplant Team can get compatible recipient list by entering donor’s reference number with blood group retrieval.
Objectives
Two new features will be highlighted. One of them can facilitate Heart Transplant Team members to retrieve latest blood
group of donor and recipient from blood bank instead of inputting corresponding blood group manually. This new feature can
improve safety and reduce risk of transcription error.
Another new feature is that Heart Transplant Team members can get the donor’s information including blood group by
scanning the barcode of Donor Reference Number. This new feature can improve safety and facilitate Heart Transplant Team
to retrieve correct donor’s information.
Tuesday, 16 May Hospital Authority (HA) Information Technology team developed the Organ Registry Transplant System (ORTS) for heart
Methodology

transplant in April 2016. The enhanced registry allows Heart Transplant Team members to enter more comprehensive clinical
data of potential recipients. This can assist Heart Transplant Team to get a more comprehensive picture for organ allocation.

HA IT team developed the linkage with Blood Bank to ensure the latest blood group of donor and recipient can be retrieved
from system.

A system generated donor reference number would be assigned to each potential donor. For confidentiality purpose, organ
donation coordinator would give this number for transplant team’s reference. System will retrieve the corresponding donor’s
information when Heart Transplant Team members scan or input the unique number for organ allocation.

Results
As a result, comprehensive recipient record and automatic blood group retrieval can provide benefits as follows:
Content of clinical records can be enriched.
Accurate blood group of donor and recipient can be retrieved.
Transcription error of blood group can be avoided.

Conclusion
The enhanced Heart Registry for Organ Transplant is effective in retrieving an accurate and latest blood group of the donor
and recipient.

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