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The demand for blood and blood products in general is rising in all parts of the world. This need is further exacerbated by sophisticated medical and surgical procedures in high and middle income economies. Donor recruitment, and especially donor retention, pose a considerable problem for blood banks and blood collection agencies around the world. Therefore in this paper we present an Information System that synergistically exploits mobile and cloud computing in order to enable blood banks and blood collection agencies to actively recruit a healthy blood donor pool and drastically increase the retention rate by taking advantage of gamification. Furthermore the aforementioned system offers an innovative clinical decision support as a service in order to determine donor eligibility, reducing the blood collection costs and expediting the whole procedure.
The original version of this chapter was inadvertently published with an incorrect chapter pagination 796–801 and DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_155. The page range and the DOI has been re-assigned. The correct page range is 802–807 and the DOI is 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_156. The erratum to this chapter is available at DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_260
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Fotopoulos, I., Palaiologou, R., Kouris, I., Koutsouris, D. (2016). Cloud-Based Information System for Blood Donation. In: Kyriacou, E., Christofides, S., Pattichis, C. (eds) XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_156
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