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BloodCenter of Wisconsin launches breakthrough FDA approved leukemia test

BCW and Abbott Laboratories’ collaboration will help to advance personalized medicine by better identifying patients that could benefit from new FDA approved medication MILWAUKEE, Aug. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — BloodCenter of Wisconsin’s Diagnostic Laboratories, part of Versiti, is the first to offer testing using Abbott Laboratories’ RealTime IDH2 assay that

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Hoxworth_DrCarey_Retirement

(CINCINNATI – AUGUST 10, 2017) After more than three decades in the field of blood banking, Hoxworth Blood Center Medical Director, Patricia “Chris” Carey, MD, is calling it a career. Dr. Carey began that career at Hoxworth Blood Center in 1983, serving a one-year fellowship in Transfusion Medicine at the

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NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER JOINS BLOOD CENTERS OF AMERICA

West Warwick, RI, July 20, 2017– Blood Centers of America (BCA) announced today that New York Blood Center (NYBC) has joined its network of blood and source plasma collection centers. BCA is a national, member-owned network of over 50 independent blood centers – each of which has a singular focus

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HOXWORTH BLOOD CENTER DIRECTOR NAMED ACCA PRESIDENT- ELECT

(CINCINNATI, April 17, 2017)— Ronald Sacher, MD, director of Hoxworth Blood Center, has been named the 2018 president-elect of the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA). Founded in 1884, the ACCA is the oldest medical society in the United States. ‘Climatological’ refers to the fact that climate was a key

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HemaTerra IT Synergistics

HemaTerra Technologies is pleased to announce a new relationship with IT Synergistics to reduce the cost of operations and redundant data entry for our mutual clients. Organizations using HemaTerra’s integrated products – HemaConnect donor recruitment, HemaControl order entry and inventory management, and HemaComply product QC and equipment management – who

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BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Fresenius Kabi collaborate in first-of-its-kind pilot to track blood digitally

Milwaukee, Wis., — February 6, 2017 — BloodCenter of Wisconsin, part of Versiti, and Fresenius Kabi, have launched a pilot program at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin using radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to digitally track blood usage and inventory. Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin is the first pediatric hospital in the

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