Weinan Central Blood Station Unveils Smart Blood Safety Management System, Boosting Efficiency by Dozens of Times

Recently, in response to the national initiative for “Internet + Healthcare,” the Weinan Central Blood Station has further strengthened the intelligent construction of its blood storage cold rooms. After six months of preliminary research, investigation, and exploratory innovation, it has officially put into use a system featuring RFID tags for blood units, contactless entry and exit points for smart cold storage, automated and precise physical inventory checks, and an intelligent, refined inventory safety monitoring and management system for blood products. This marks the end of the era of manual, bag-by-bag barcode scanning at the Weinan Central Blood Station, representing a significant step toward automation, informatization, and intelligence. It is also the first blood collection and supply institution in Northwest China to adopt RFID technology for blood management.

The Weinan Central Blood Station has always prioritized blood safety assurance in its operational management, actively responding to the national “Internet + Healthcare” development initiative and advancing the station’s smart transformation. The deployment of new equipment has significantly improved the efficiency of daily inventory management, providing robust safeguards for blood quality and safety.

Intelligent Cold Storage Automatic Inventory Terminal

It is reported that the Weinan Central Blood Station is responsible for ensuring the clinical blood supply for 25 blood storage rooms across 11 counties, districts, and county-level cities in the city, with an annual blood supply of approximately 15 tons and a daily plasma intake of around 20,000 milliliters. Previously, plasma inventory entry required manual scanning and verification of each unit, taking nearly one hour. With the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, each plasma bag now requires only a single scan to complete the three-code verification process, reducing the total time to approximately 5–10 minutes. The entire procedure is contactless and fully automated, making plasma inventory management more convenient and efficient.

Meanwhile, the smart cold storage inventory terminals used in the smart blood bank system have fully automated scanning and inventory processes, making them more precise and efficient. Inventory checks that previously took a week can now be completed in just over an hour, representing a dozens-fold increase in work efficiency compared to traditional manual inventory methods. The use of RFID tags also enables precise location of plasma products. In the past, relying on manual index-based searches among tens of thousands of plasma bags was cumbersome and time-consuming; now, by simply entering the donation code, the storage location of the blood can be quickly identified.

Real-Time Information Display

According to reports, the smart upgrade of the Weinan Central Blood Station relies on Beijing Hongcheng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., a domestic hard-tech enterprise with independent intellectual property rights. As a trusted provider of biological resource management services, Hongcheng Innovation has been committed to addressing the challenges and pain points in traditional biological resource management and has established comprehensive and feasible industry solutions.

Blood Station Management Decision Support System

The “Smart Blood Refined Inventory Safety Monitoring and Management Platform” implemented at the Weinan Central Blood Station operates using a self-developed model comprising “RFID tags + intelligent reading devices + software middleware/intelligent monitoring cloud platform.” These RFID tags feature physical properties such as anti-metal interference, anti-liquid interference, and resistance to ultra-low temperatures of -196°C. This implementation achieves incremental upgrades of key technologies for the station’s intelligent cold storage facilities, realizing mechanized inventory counting, informatized data acquisition, and refined, visualized, and intelligent inventory management. It truly achieves the integration of “information flow, physical flow, and business flow.”

Real-Time Monitoring Platform for Blood Safety Management

In the future, Hongcheng Innovation will provide more dedicated support to the Weinan Central Blood Station, implementing hard-tech solutions to empower its informatization initiatives. This will enhance the blood station’s intelligent management and service capabilities. By integrating next-generation information technologies with blood management operations, we aim to significantly improve the efficiency of blood collection and supply services as well as strategic responsiveness, thereby safeguarding blood safety for the entire city.