Dear colleagues,

We are a medium sized hospital in Germany with a donor milk bank. We are managing the procedures manually right now and are looking for a digital /software solution.

Any suggestions for a usable software?

Yours Nele Howold

Hi Nele, we run the milk bank for the Stockholm Region in our hospital but I don't know the technical solutions, I will check later, am on vacation right now :)

Hello Nele,

try this one: https://henry.idcohorts.net/de/henry-neomilk/

Best regards from Brunswik, Wigand

Good morning,

we had a lot of trouble with the NeoMilk-Software at the time we tried to build up our milk bank.

So, we are also looking for a well working solution. We use Excel-Sheets at the moment.

@Wigand Is the software working properly for you?

With kind regards from Mainz

Dirk

Thanks @Wigand , looks very interesting and open source too! I think a milk bank solution indeed could be the perfect thing for a community-driven open source software (like my favourites Zotero, Collabora, NextCloud and Mastodon).

My German is rudimentary but I understand it correctly that this is a generic biobank software? Did you need to do a lot of adaptions or do you use this more or less out-of-the-box?

I am not fully into the new EU regulation about donor breast milk, but does the use of this software comply with those (traceability etc)?

@Stefan Johansson scanning the 80 pages of the EU regulation a biobank software which creates barcodes is basically what you need. I know a lot of donor banks using blood biobank softwares (because they have them anyway).

Commercial blood bank software is unfortunately very costly. Our hospital has to pay the running costs for the milk bank out of our own pockets - there is no funding, no Ops-code, so also no payments by the health care system. We strongly believe in the benefit of the donor milk, but buying a commercial blood bank software is just a huge financial issue.

@NHowold this is why I believe that a community driven project would be a great fit for this type of software, maybe connected to EMBA? Would be happy to be part of such a project :)