Hemostasis Today
NewsFeed
Headlines Hematology Health Medicine VTE ASH Plasma Donation
August, 2026
August 2026
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
Shamee Shastry: Using AI to Transform Blood Inventory Management
Shamee Shastry/LinkedIn
Aug 30, 2026, 10:27

Shamee Shastry: Using AI to Transform Blood Inventory Management

Shamee Shastry, Professor and Head of the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, shared on LinkedIn about a recent article she and her colleagues co-authored, published in Discover Applied Sciences, adding:

“Blood Inventory Management in a 2000 plus bed tertiary care referral hospital is not an easy task.

Even with a blood centre software, every day the Transfusion Medicine team has to review multiple variables and take critical decisions:

How much stock is required?

  • Which blood groups need priority attention?
  • What is the expected demand?
  • What is the shelf life and risk of expiry?
  • How will season, holidays, academic calendar and donor availability influence collection?

At the end of the day, blood inventory management is experience-driven decision-making supported by mathematics, clinical understanding and continuous monitoring.

But in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, can this complex decision-making process be simplified?

A recent collaborative publication between Manipal Institute of Technology and the Transfusion Medicine KMC Manipal team explored this possibility by developing a data-driven forecasting framework for intelligent blood inventory planning, using three years of real-world blood donation data from a tertiary care centre in India.

Congratulations to Ms Shruthi for this excellent work, and thanks to Professor Srikanth Srinivas Prabhu for providing this valuable opportunity.”

Title: Engineering data-driven forecasting models for intelligent blood inventory decision-support in healthcare systems

Authors: Shamee Shastry, Sudha S. Bhat, Karandeep Singh

Shamee Shastry: Using AI to Transform Blood Inventory Management

Stay updated on all scientific advances with Hemostasis Today.

 

Artificial Intelligence Blood banking Blood donation blood inventory Blood inventory management blood supply chain clinical decision making data driven healthcare demand forecasting Dr Shamee Shastry healthcare analytics Hemostasis News Hemostasis Today inventory optimization Machine Learning predictive modeling tertiary care hospital Transfusion Medicine transfusion medicine research
NewsFeed