Grant: Alliance Grants
Dalhousie University
$49,975.00
Responding to COVID-19 disruptions to blood transfusion services: A data analytics and visualization platform for blood product inventory management during COVID-19
EF 2020-21
Résumé
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increased concern around shortages of blood products due to impacts on the availability of blood donors; this could seriously affect the operations of hospitals and, in turn, patient safety across Canada. This project takes a data-driven blood product inventory management solution, specifically tailored to respond to blood product supply and distribution challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project is a partnership between Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) Central Zone Blood Transfusion Services (CZBTS) and Dalhousie University researchers. The project outcome will be an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based blood product inventory management platform to: (1) visualize on an interactive dashboard the near real-time inventory and on-going transactions of blood products to streamline the distribution of essential blood products; (2) predict whether a blood product is likely to be discarded based on its transactional data so that administrators can proactively act to avoid its discard; and (3) prevent the expiration of blood products. The project's impact will be the effective management of blood products so that essential healthcare services can be delivered despite supply disruptions due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Programme
Alliance Grants
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Nova Scotia, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
552034-2020
Name nom
ABIDI, SYED SIBTE RAZA
Department département
Computer Science, Faculty of
Organization id
79
Institution établissement
Dalhousie University
Province en
Nova Scotia
Province fr
Nouvelle-Écosse
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2020
Competition year année de concours
2020
Award amount
49975
Program id
ALLRP
Program name en
Alliance Grants
Program name fr
Subventions Alliance
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
802
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Information systems and technology
Area of application fr
Systèmes d'information et technologie de l'information
Research subject code
2800
Research subject group en
Artificial intelligence
Research subject group fr
Intelligence artificielle
Research subject en
Artificial intelligence (computer vision, use2603)
Research subject fr
Intelligence artificielle (vision artificielle, utiliser 2603)
Installment
inst:1 - 1
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Responding to COVID-19 disruptions to blood transfusion services: A data analytics and visualization platform for blood product inventory management during COVID-19
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increased concern around shortages of blood products due to impacts on the availability of blood donors; this could seriously affect the operations of hospitals and, in turn, patient safety across Canada. This project takes a data-driven blood product inventory management solution, specifically tailored to respond to blood product supply and distribution challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project is a partnership between Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) Central Zone Blood Transfusion Services (CZBTS) and Dalhousie University researchers. The project outcome will be an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based blood product inventory management platform to: (1) visualize on an interactive dashboard the near real-time inventory and on-going transactions of blood products to streamline the distribution of essential blood products; (2) predict whether a blood product is likely to be discarded based on its transactional data so that administrators can proactively act to avoid its discard; and (3) prevent the expiration of blood products. The project's impact will be the effective management of blood products so that essential healthcare services can be delivered despite supply disruptions due to COVID-19 pandemic.
