PulseThread
PulseThread is a real-time blood donor mobilization platform that connects patients, donors, and responders during medical emergencies. It streamlines the entire donation process — from creating urgent blood requests to verifying donor eligibility and completion — through a multi-stage QR-based verification system. Unlike traditional donor directories, PulseThread focuses on trust, transparency, and rapid response by integrating location awareness, donor matching, and verification workflows.
Blood shortages remain critical, especially during emergencies. Existing solutions suffer from unverified donor responses, no-show donors, fraudulent donation claims, and inefficient communication between patients and potential donors. Voluntary non-remunerated donors contribute only about a third of Bangladesh's national blood demand. Traditional tools treat donor acceptance as the endpoint — enabling intermediaries who promise blood but never deliver, leaving patients in crisis without recourse.
Built a verification-first platform where each donation passes through three concrete checkpoints — arrival, cross-match, donation — verified via single-use QR codes scanned in person. Features real-time blood requests with urgency levels and hospital info, location-based donor discovery, verified user profiles, request management dashboards, and emergency response coordination. Any user can forward requests into their networks, distributing mobilization across the community. Published research backing the approach at Zenodo.
