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Third place of Imagine Cup Indonesia is RedHub project created by Quarternion team. The name of this team is originated from a name of a system of numbers in mathematics. All members of Quarternion are currently in the fourth year of college at the Faculty of Computer Science University of Indonesia. They are Affath Firdausi (winner of Nokia Apps Challenge – as UX and Windows Mobile developer), Agung Pratama (developer), Alfira Fitrananda (business analyst) and Akhmad Rahadian Hutomo (system designer).
The idea of this RedHub project began when Ian, as Akhmad Rahadian Hutomo known to others, participated in last year’s Imagine Cup. In an interview with Indonesian Red Cross volunteer, Ian saw a need to resolve the issue of blood distribution. Prospective blood recipients should be able to get the blood quickly and easily.
With this background, they created RedHub, an integrated system that holds information of blood inventory and distribution of all blood banks. The system will connect the three parties: recipient, donor and health care institution such as hospital and blood banks. RedHub is expected to make prospective recipient to be easily and quickly find potential donors when needed.
RedHub consists of a web application called the Integrated Blood Center Information System (IBICS). Each blood bank will be able to access this IBICS using a web browser and accessing IBICS’s features from blood inventory management, blood donor data management and communication with other nearest data bank.
Quarternion also made Windows Phone based RedHub application. With this application, user can create profile, find the nearest donor and data bank and interact in a timeline known as bloodhub. RedHub application user can take advantage of this timeline to make a post about the need of bloof, blood donor event or other education about blood transfusion. The plan is, this timeline will be connected with social media such as Twitter and/or Facebook.
Quarternion team has presented this project to the Jakarta Indonesia Red Cross Blood Donor Unit. Even though Indonesia Red Cross has in fact have drafted a national information system for blood donor problem, the Quarternion team will keep trying to explore this issue on user part and applies inventory analysis to look at the possibility of the implementation of their designs on the Red Cross’s information system.
In the development of RedHub project, Quarternion team will try to work with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia. In the midst of each member’s schedule in finishing their thesis, may their dream to solve the problem of blood distribution in Indonesia can be achieved. Winning the third place in Imagine Cup Indonesia 2012 could be a motivation to finish this project.
Source: Interview via email and Quarternion’s Blog.
