Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP), Blood Reserve Availability Surveillance System (BRASS)

This project will encompass three critical objectives. First, there will be an assessment of the current operating status of JMAR with respect to blood and blood products. Second, ESI will develop a detailed technical approach to enhancing the data entry mechanisms, includeing but not limited to direct manual entry to a web-based interface. Third, the enhanced data entry functions will be accompanied by the identification of a set of alternative approaches to making BRASS a robust information and reporting system, including opportunites for structured and on-demand management analyses, the potential for integration with civilian blood collection agencies, and the information infrastructure of evolving initiatives for a National Blood Reserve and a civilian Blood Availability and Safety Information System (BASIS).