title: [Geomatics in the service of blood collection].
abstract: To achieve blood supply, EFS organizes mobile blood collection sessions (80% of whole blood supply), close to target blood donors. Mobile sessions planning is usually developed in partnership with organizations of voluntary blood donors, based on the experience of previous sessions. However, population moving to urban areas and lifestyles changing force to focus on objective demographic analysis to determine a prospective vision of potentialities to ensure blood supply.
  
  
  METHODS
  For blood supply management, EFS recently implemented innovative methods of mapping, through Geographic Information System software (GIS) that allow a spatial representation of different indicators. Geomatics engineering gathers and processes spatially referenced information about blood collections and blood donors, combining data from EFS and data from IGN or INSEE.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors present some examples of geomatics applied to blood supply and a feedback on the implementation of these tools in a French region. These innovative tools enhance expertise and increase the mastery of analysis for blood supply strategies.
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Pays-de-la-Loire, centre hospitalier départementale les Oudairies, site de La Roche-sur-Yon, 85925 La Roche-sur-Yon cedex 9, France. Electronic address: philippe.halbout@efs.sante.fr.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Halbout
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Bretagne, rue Pierre-Jean-Gineste, 35016 Rennes cedex, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lebaudy
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Bretagne, rue Pierre-Jean-Gineste, 35016 Rennes cedex, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gagneux
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang, services Centraux, 20, avenue Stade-de-France, 93200 Saint-Denis, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brosius
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang, services Centraux, 20, avenue Stade-de-France, 93200 Saint-Denis, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pelletier
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Bretagne, rue Pierre-Jean-Gineste, 35016 Rennes cedex, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Danic
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003710:Demography; D005602:France; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D012984:Software
keywords: Blood collection; Blood donors; Blood supply strategies; Cartographie; Collecte de sang; Donneurs de sang; Geomatic; Géomatique; Mapping; Stratégie de prélèvement