EVS-ENV 13730-2:2010

Transfusion of blood [3.7] and blood components [3.9] (blood products) to subjects of care [3.48] is a medicalactivity that is subject to many legal regulations and constraints. Many problems may be encountered duringtreatment due to immunological conditions, transmitted diseases, sustainability and other difficulties. Mistakesand failures may have serious or even fatal consequences. Minimising human activity through the increased useof data processing and automated messaging will introduce an additional safety mechanism.This ENV specifies general messages [3.41] for electronic information interchange between computer systemsused by healthcare [3.29] parties [3.33] in the blood transfusion [3.16] domain. The content and structure of themessages specified in this ENV have been developed with the aim of optimising the safety of blood transfusionactivity and to facilitate compliance monitoring and secure audit trails [3.2].