Artificial Intelligence in Hemovigilance: Advancing Blood Safety and Monitoring Systems

Blood transfusion is one of the key practices in making sure that the safety of the patients remains intact; however, traditional systems are being faced with a substantial number of challenges, such as underreporting utility of data integration issues and slow response time. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology brings new light in dealing with these problems by means of the integration of advanced information systems that could differentiate, find out, and report the transfusion cases. This review discusses the potential of emerging AI in advancing hemovigilance by way of integrating natural language processing to support data integration, machine learning models for the detection of adverse events, and predictive analytics for personalised risk management. AI technologies are further implemented in the supply chain to improve the blood supply by the application of optimisation techniques of demand forecasting and waste reduction. It is important to note that even though hemovigilance systems' AI-based solutions ensure safe patient care and efficient operation, there are always some problems faced by AI-based technologies, for example, data privacy, algorithmic biases, and inadequate regulatory frameworks, which might cause unnecessary obstructions. In the future, effective privacy-enhancing methods will be developed, like federated learning, in addition to Explainable AI (XAI) for the human building of robust, transparent, and secure AI hemovigilance systems. This review stresses that AI will play a vital role in the future of transfusion by improving the safety and efficiency of medical services eventually.