Blood supply economy research
Blood products are a significant cost for the society. FRCBS’s blood donor research aims to minimize the costs of blood supply chain by analyzing process data collected by FRCBS.
The project has developed a blood product demand forecasting model in collaboration with Sanquin, the national blood service of the Netherlands (https://www.sanquin.nl/en), that is used for financial planning at the FRCBS (Turkulainen et al. 2022, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/trf.16870). In collaboration with FRCBS, researchers at Aalto University have developed an optimization algorithm for platelet storage levels (Dillon & al. 2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221723002011).
Currently, researchers from the FRCBS are collaborating with Helsinki University Hospital to develop mathematical prediction models for future blood demand based on electronic health care records of the hospital.