2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
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2007

AABB 2007 Annual Meeting (October 2007)

Exempla Healthcare Press Release (September 4, 2007)

Rock River Valley Blood Center Press Release (August 15, 2007)

Internet QDS 510(k) Press Release (July 30, 2007)

Virginia Blood Services Press Release (April 23, 2007)

Computer-Based Blood Donor Screening: A Status Report. Louis M. Katz, Paul D. Cumming, and Edward L. Wallace. Transfusion Medicine Reviews, Vol 21, No 1 (January), 2007: pp 13-25

2006

Talisman Receives Tibbetts Award

Talisman Phlebotomy System 510(k) Press Release (August 21, 2006)

AABB 2006 Annual Meeting (October 2006)

Nomination for Tibbetts Award. (July 15, 2006) [Large file: 3.7 MB]

2005

AABB 2005 Annual Meeting (October 2005)

Press Release - Automated Donor Screening Awarded 3 Year Expansion by NHLBI (October 4, 2005)

Audiovisual touch-screen computer-assisted self-interviewing for donor health histories: results from two years experience with the system. Katz LM, Cumming PD, Wallace EL, Abrams PS. Electronic version of an article published in TRANSFUSION 2005;45:171-180. Posted with permission of Blackwell-Synergy.

Extracts from editorial in TRANSFUSION 2005;45:128-129

Presentation to PPTA 2005 Plasma Protein Forum. Paul Cumming, June 8, 2005

Donors More Likely to be Candid with Touch-Screen Interviewing, Study Finds, ABC Newsletter, April 22, 2005

2004

AABB 2004 Annual Meeting (October 2004)

2003

AABB 2003 Annual Meeting Posters & Presentation (November 2003)

Press release West Tennessee RBC Implements QDS (April 9, 2003)

Presentations by LM Katz, MD, Medical Director Mississippi Valley RBC

2002

  • Audio-Visual, Touch Screen, Computer Assisted Self-Interview (AVT-CASI): First Year Results. Louis M. Katz M.D. and Laurie Rogenski R.N., Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Paul Cumming Ph.D., Talisman Ltd. Slides from American Association of Blood Banks Donor Recruitment (020A) Session, 10/27/2002, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Orange County Convention Center, 414A.
  • Summary of Literature on Alternative Methods of Donor Interviewing. Paul D. Cumming, PHD, Talisman Limited & Louis M. Katz, MD, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Slides from presentation to Blood Products Advisory Committee, US Food & Drug Administration, September 12, 2002.
  • Summary of Literature on Alternative Methods of Donor Interviewing, PD Cumming & LM Katz, Talisman Limited and Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, respectively, August 29, 2002, submitted to the Executive Secretary of the US Food & Drug Administration Blood Products Advisory Committee for distribution to members in advance of the September 12, 2002 meeting on “self-administration of the uniform donor history questionnaire: first time donors.”
  • "Audio-Video Computer Assisted Self Interview (AV-CASI) of Blood Donors" Presentation made to the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research sponsored "Workshop on Best Practices for Reducing Transfusion Errors" at the Nation Institutes of Health Natcher Conference Center on February 15, 2002 by Laurie Rogenski, RN of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Co-authors include Louis M. Katz, MD, of Mississippi Valley and Talisman Limited staff Paul D. Cumming, PhD, Eniko Ossman, Rachna Arora and Philip Abrams, PhD. Some annotation has been added to try to fill in the gaps going from a personal presentation to a silent one.

2001

1999

  • Presentation with audio entitled "Computer Assisted Audio-Video Versus Traditional Blood Donor Screening: Initial Results" by Thomas F. Zuck, MD, Chief Executive Officer of the Hoxworth Blood Center, and others at the 1999 American Association of Blood Banks Annual Meetings November 9, 1999. The presentation covers results of National Heart Lung & Blood Institute supported (HL61111) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant for pilot testing the Windows 9x stand alone work station QDS technology customized to Hoxworth's donor medical history (HQDS). The presentation is in Flash™ format, including Dr. Zuck's audio from a tape of the original presentation, and covers results from almost 300 donor satisfaction surveys and automated computer logs of medical history interviews of near 400 donors with Hoxworth staff reviewers and additional cost/benefit considerations. (File size: 3.9MB)
    • Or click here to download the presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint™ format without audio
 
 

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