BloodTrack Kiosk® V5 Installation Guide
HAE: SM-BloodTrack-08(AA)
SBC100xxx
GBE: 2000-JNB0012
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operations carried out at that storage location (for example, removal of blood products
by authorized users of the system).
All the configuration and data determining authorized users, blood products and their
suitability for use is controlled by the BloodTrack Blood Management and Bedside
Transfusion Solutions) hosted on the BECS. The BloodTrack Kiosk V5 is a terminal to
that system via the network connection.
2.7.3 Required Configuration of IT Network
Connecting and configuring the BloodTrack Courier software running on the BloodTrack
Kiosk V5 to the TCP/IP network should only be started subject to the site survey
undertaken in conjunction with the healthcare site. The BloodTrack Courier software
running on the BloodTrack Kiosk V5 only requires a point-to-point network connection
from it to the BECS ‘server’, but this topology may be facilitated via a multi-access
network, where other systems share the network infrastructure. This is the reason why
a site survey is required in order to identify, analyze, evaluate and control the risks to
patients, operators or other third parties, where the network connection is shared with
other equipment.
The BloodTrack Kiosk V5 operating system is set up by default, to enable TCP/IP. The
TCP/IP settings must be configured to suit the requirements of the healthcare site
network infrastructure. This is to include IP address range, subnet mask, host name,
default gateway(s) (routers) as well as IT-domain, so that the BloodTrack Courier
software running on the BloodTrack Kiosk V5 can communicate with the BECS server.
All further configuration is automatically assigned by the BECS issuing commands to
the BloodTrack Kiosk V5 as part of the BloodTrack Blood Management and Bedside
Transfusion Solution data exchange. This occurs during client boot, and periodically
throughout operation of the system. The BECS is managed by the healthcare site to suit
their requirements for the control of blood products and blood product storage.
The BloodTrack Courier software running on the BloodTrack Kiosk V5 follows the
standard practice of TCP/IP over Ethernet implementation, in that the device requires a
unique IP address to be assigned to it from those available on the TCP/IP network on
which the device is to operate. The BloodTrack Kiosk V5 operating system supports
either IPv4 or IPv6, but IPv4 is, at present, still the most common method used for local
area network configuration.
TCP/IP implementing IPv4 uses 32-bit numbers known as IP addresses. These are
usually expressed as 4 8-bit numbers in dotted-decimal format
—for example,
192.168.10.1, to make the number human-readable. Each of the 4 numbers is within
the range of 1 to 254. There is a restriction on using either 0 or 255.
Every device connected on the network requires a unique IP address, but there are
techniques to allow separate local subnets using the same range of IP addresses to be
connected together, so that each subnet appears as a separate remote network to
another. These interconnects between subnets are handled by the router and gateway
devices within the network.
