Fenwal Inc, Round Lake, Ill, plans to partner with Data Innovations Inc, South Burlington, Vt, to develop, distribute, and license a data-capture and reporting system for Fenwal’s automated blood component collection systems.

The collaboration would allow blood centers to export data from Fenwal’s automated blood collection devices into the instrument manager system, which would generate standard and customized reports analyzing donor and procedural information.

The system could help eliminate manual capture of information from Fenwal’s automated collection devices and would aid blood centers in identifying and tracking donor and procedure trends. It is expected to be available in 2008 for Fenwal’s Alyx, Amicus, and autophersis-C automated collection devices in the United States.