Miller-Keystone Blood Center headquartered in Wall, New Jersey has selected Bio-key International's cloud-based fingerprint biometric hosted service to enhance the security and convenience of positive donor identification at their centers. The center serves as the only blood provider to 25 hospitals in Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Lehigh, Luzerne, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill (Pennsylvania), as well as Hunterdon and Warren (New Jersey) counties. Miller-Keystone is one of the nation's most highly regarded and experienced blood centers. The center is also a member of America's Blood Centers (ABC), a national network of independent, non-profit community blood centers that provides approximately 60 percent of the blood products transfused in the United States.
Miller-Keystone Blood Center headquartered in Wall, New Jersey has selected Bio-key International's cloud-based fingerprint biometric hosted service to enhance the security and convenience of positive donor identification at their centers. The center serves as the only blood provider to 25 hospitals in Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Lehigh, Luzerne, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill (Pennsylvania), as well as Hunterdon and Warren (New Jersey) counties. Miller-Keystone is one of the nation's most highly regarded and experienced blood centers. The center is also a member of America's Blood Centers (ABC), a national network of independent, non-profit community blood centers that provides approximately 60 percent of the blood products transfused in the United States.
"We are thrilled to welcome Miller-Keystone to our growing family of blood center customers," said Jim Sullivan, VP of Strategy and Business Development at Bio-key. "By leveraging Bio-key to automate the positive ID of their donors and detect duplicate donor records before they are created, they have enhanced the safety and security of the donor collection process, while reducing donor check-in to a two-second operation at their registration desk."
"The security of donor information is of the utmost importance to our blood center and the added benefits that will be realized at the time of registration will no doubt be appreciated by donors and staff alike. We looked at many options for achieving a positive, but streamlined, donor identification process, and feel that Bio-key is revolutionizing the way donors and patients will check in for years to come,” said Michael Lee, DBA, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, President-CEO, Miller-Keystone Blood Center. “This investment in technology will serve Miller-Keystone hospital clients and donors alike."
"Bio-key is the leading provider of innovative, cost efficient donor ID solutions for blood centers and transfusion facilities," said Mike DePasquale, CEO, Bio-key. "We have deployed over three million donor identification licenses across our blood center customers to meet the FDA's strict requirement for positive identification."