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BISKIT Closing Workshop June 2023

On 19th & 20th June 2023, the BISKIT consortium hosted various stakeholders and the funding institution Federal Ministry of Education and Research, represented by VDI, for the project closing workshop at Technical University of Darmstadt.The workshop aimed at presenting the final project results to our stakeholders. Representatives from National Blood Service Ghana, African Society for …

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BISKIT Meeting at ERCIS WWU Münster

On Wednesday, the 18th January 2023, a team from the ERCIS Competence Centre for Crisis Management hosted representatives from various research and practitioner groups in the context of the research project “Blood Information System for Crisis Intervention and Management” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The participants provided insights into their …

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Presenting BISKIT at Global Digital Health Forum in Washington, D.C.

In early 2022, a call for abstract submission of solutions that aligns with Digital Healthcare was made and we put in our submission; we were selected amidst 100s submissions for an in-person presentation of our solution at the Annual Global Digital Health Forum in USA. Briefly, the Global Digital Health Network envisions a world where …

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BISKIT poster presentation at BMBF Innovationsforum in Berlin

The BISKIT consortium took part in this year’s “Innovationsforum Zivile Sicherheit” organized by the federal ministry of education and research (BMBF) from 2.- 4. May 2022 in Berlin. BISKIT presented a poster on the potential of information systems in crisis intervention and management for blood establishments during the conference. Furthermore, many exciting intersections with other …

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First BISKIT-Stakeholder Workshop on Blood Transfusion Systems and Crises

On 30 September 2021, we had our first stakeholder workshop on blood transfusion systems and crises. 29 colleagues from blood establishments, regulatory agencies, NGOs, and international organizations from many different countries participated in this meeting to discuss first results from the BISKIT project. We illustrated that a digital solution for stock control management might be …

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Poster presented at the 54th DGTI conference!

The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut presented the poster “Potential of digital intormation technology for crisis intervention and management in South African blood transfusion services” at this year’s 54th conference of the DGTI (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhämatologie e. V.). The poster summarizes the major objectives of the BISKIT project, and illustrates different areas where digital technology may …

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BISKIT publications and presentations during the conference summer

In the summer 2021 conference season, BISKIT consortium partners from the WWU Münster and TU Darmstadt published their current state in the development of a simulation-based optimization toolkit for the evaluation of crisis management policies in the blood supply chain at multiple events. At the 2021 meeting of “The European Working Group on Operational Research …

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