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‹ Tue · 24 Mar 2026
Promising but preliminary

Fundamentals of big data and artificial intelligence in transfusion medicine

Artificial intelligence offers a roadmap to modernize blood banks—improving donor management, safety, and compatibility testing for better transfusions.

This comprehensive review outlines how AI and big data can modernize transfusion medicine, covering donor management, precision red blood cell diagnostics via lab-on-a-chip, digital crossmatching, and FHIR-based data integration. The authors propose a roadmap for blood establishments as federated big-data engines while noting challenges in privacy, scalability, and clinical translation.

What the study was

Study design
Narrative/comprehensive review
Population
Transfusion medicine / blood establishment populations
Category
Diagnostics
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Vox Sanguinis

Why it surfaced

Review article on AI in transfusion medicine — relevant to hematology diagnostics watchlist but review-level evidence; lower novelty and design quality caps score.

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