Re: [Health-dev] Blood Bank Module

[Chris]

Hiya!

> I'm in the final stages of building a Blood Bank management system
> based on Django. Over the last few months however, I have been working
> a lot with GNU Health and Tryton. 

Awesome! =-)

> Considering that the folks responsible for the Django app are planning
> to release it with an OSS license, I was thinking to use some of the
> effort and knowledge to create a blood bank module for GNU Health. 

Awesome ^ 2! =-)
 
> I do not want to re-invent the wheel however. So, I was wondering if
> anyone had a similar module or if someone can point me to
> functionality within GNU Health that provides features to handle blood
> donations and disbursement. 

I have very little knowledge of the needs and desires of a blood bank.
However, from a naive view, it would seem that, in general, a blood bank
has needs similar to any other product-centric business - like, tracking
products, storing info about the products, and handling disbursement.
Things like that. Just with blood products. Tryton handles those
fundamentals really well already. Probably can't do justice to all its
functionality. But, I think, a specific module with preloaded data and
other specific needs would be great. Others can chime in if they want.
Tryton docs are a good start. Also, I've found reading some of the
source for the GNU Health modules very helpful. =-)

> Additionally, since I'm still new to the world of medicine, can anyone
> point me to info from the WHO or otherwise that may be useful in
> making the final module internally applicable. 

Here's a start: http://who.int/bloodsafety/en/

The Global Database On Blood Safety questionnaire would be interesting
to include.

Regards,

-C