The
AEB (Alabama Eye Bank) has been serving people of corneal loss of
vision find vision. Since the AEB being the only Eye Bank in Alabama,
they are available round the clock. Tom Cattell, VP of Information
Services at Alabama Eye Bank, has informed that FileMaker enables a
programmer or savvy end-user in order to get database apps functioning
within a quick time. He said, a lot of his development requires
automating workflows in accordance with paper or even Excel
spreadsheets. These are usually small systems having a short amount of
data. Therefore he is interested to get a FileMaker system which deals
with a complex and also critical workflow. Alabama Eye Bank has got an
application that records the development of the donated corneas. The
program was explained in the FileMaker’s customer stories pages. Which
explanation goes back a few years, and Tom was curious to learn about
the present condition of the application. FileMaker is currently on
version 13. Solutions developed in FileMaker Pro 12 also 13 could be
implemented on MS windows, Macintoshes, or iPhone and iPad.
Although
FileMaker 13 is the latest version of FileMaker, AEB is currently using
FileMaker 12, because their audit log (FMDataGuard) which tracks
converts to records and fields is of 32 bit therefore does not go with
FM13. He work on FM13 for the development and also for the iPhone &
iPad applications. He is working currently in changing to a different
audit log so that they could get to the FileMaker 13 as soon as
possible. They host FileMaker server on to a Windows 2008 virtualized
server. All their clients are Mac and all of their servers are
virtualized Windows servers and they are all on their local network.
They have been using FileMaker ever since 1998 and made use of Macs even
before that, therefore it was not a big deal to change over to
FileMaker Go and begin with iPads and iPhones. At the time when Tom
stated with Alabama Eye Bank in the year 2007, they had a smaller sized
database produced in the FileMaker 6. His very first task was to
upgrading them to FileMaker 9 that took three months time. Thereafter,
they have more then double the databases and make use of that in almost
all parts of their work. Their supply module that was produced around a
year before had been mainly created with the local consultants, among
whom developed the interface for their present databases.
The
entire procedure starts when hospital contacts a death to their Donor
Service Center (DSC). The Donor Service Center inputs the information
into the Referrals tab of the database. When they get permission from a
next of family member and they pass on their medical social queries,
they mark the referral as the donor and then pass it to the Recovery
Coordinator. They bring an iPad, downloads the donor information in it
and then go to the hospital. In the hospital they enter many pages of
chart info and carry out the procedure. On return they synchronize the
data in the iPad to the AEB FileMaker server and then label on vials
which store corneas with labels which print right after the data is
uploaded. After that, the technical staff at AEB continues on the
procedure in ensuring the corneas are safe and good in quality for the
transplant. Then the hospital prepare them for the operations which are
added in AEB FileMaker hosted page through surgery schedulers all over
Alabama, the country and also around the globe. They dispatch digital
statements via FileMaker and transfer the same data to the QuickBooks
for AEB accounting.
FileMaker
is additionally included in the Alabama Eye Bank’s HR's section. Which
manages staff benefits, especially time off, vacations and also sick
leaves. Along with FileMaker, Tom has generated several statements to
help the management in order to keep a pulse for the eye bank’s regular
operations.
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