Client: C.W. Bill Young DoD Marrow Donor Center
Service: Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Solutions
Industry: Government; Healthcare
Business Case
A marrow or blood cell transplant is performed to help patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and other life-threatening diseases live longer and healthier lives. The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) contains more than six million records. New donors continue to be added through organizations across the nation. One of these organizations is the C.W. Bill Young Department of Defense Marrow Donor Center. This center adds between 50,000 and 100,000 donors every year. It has been seeking a way to improve workflows and migrate from an old system and database to a more stable system. This transition needed to be done without crippling the center’s day-to-day processes of making life-saving connections between patients and donors.
Solution
Data Blueprint developed and deployed Allelos, a custom software solution for lab interface. This solution provided faster, more automated systems that enabled more simplified workflows and decreased turn-around times between initial donations and life saving transplants in a manner that was faster, safer and more reliable. This solution included:
- Integration of multiple, disparate databases into one
- Reduced errors in file naming, data transfers and updated records
- Decreased turn-around times to connect patients with potential donors
Technical Environment
- Microsoft SQL Server
- .NET
- C#
Results
The Allelos platform integrates the existing systems into one assimilated interface, which decreases turn-around times, errors, transfers and data redundancies. Allelos was engineered to be functional and serve as an improvement of the existing processes for all lab divisions. Data Blueprint accomplished these goals without creating an entirely new system that would interfere with time and performance restrictions by NMPD.
Client Testimonial
“It is difficult dealing with complex systems and massive amounts of data and Data Blueprint has been very accommodating with our suggestions/requirements. Previously, I had to look in many different databases to get the information that I needed – now all of that information is stored in one database. The Allelos software is able to communicate with other software applications so the different lab sections can import their results into the same database and we can see each other’s results easily – no more cut/paste or typographical errors from manual entry. (…)”
Carly Massaberg, SSO Large Volume Testing Supervisor
