mHealth: Blood donation service in Bangladesh

Communication technology has advanced significantly over the last decade enabling people to communicate anytime from anywhere using a multiplicity of devices. However, the power of this advancement in communication technology has hardly been leveraged in health care industry. The purpose of this paper is to develop a blood donation service to assist in the management of blood donor records and ease/or control the distribution of blood in various parts of the country basing on the demands. The blood donation service in Bangladesh offers functionality to quick access to donor records collected from various parts of the country. It enables monitoring of the results and performance of the blood donation activity.