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Publication Date: 2 October 2025
Using Electronic Systems to Improve Blood Inventory Management and Transfusion Practice - Learning From the Oxford Experience
Hours: 0.5
Course Description
In this lecture, Professor Mike Murphy will share the Oxford experience with implementing electronic systems to support blood inventory management and transfusion practice. He will discuss the need for these improvements and describe the use of information technology at Oxford. Professor Murphy concludes with a discussion of other opportunities to implement information technology in transfusion medicine practice.
Course Objectives
- Restate the need to improve transfusion practice
- Describe the use of IT to improve practice in Oxford
- Consider what is needed to do the same elsewhere
Run Time: 0:27:19
Course Instructor Bio(s)
Mike Murphy, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPath
Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Oxford
Consultant Haematologist for NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) and the Oxford University Hospitals
Oxford, United Kingdom
Mike Murphy is Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Oxford and Consultant Haematologist for NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) and the Oxford University Hospitals. He founded the NHSBT’s Clinical Studies Unit, Systematic Reviews Initiative, and National Comparative Audit programme. He was Secretary of the National Blood Transfusion Committee (England) from its establishment in 2001 to 2015, and provided leadership for the Chief Medical Officers’ Better Blood Transfusion/Patient Blood Management Seminars and Health Service Circulars from 1997 to 2012. He chaired the group which developed the NICE guidelines on transfusion (2015), was Chair of the international BEST Research Collaborative (2014 to 2018) and was President of the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) (2019). His main focus is on hospital transfusion practice, patient blood management and the use of information technology. He has published many original articles, systematic reviews, and book chapters and has been an editor of Practical Transfusion Medicine through its first 6 editions.
