Talisman Limited had developed medical self-interviewing systems that improve quality and timeliness of patient information. Having been focused on blood banking, the firm developed its Quality Donor SystemTM (QDS) via more than 300,000 competed donor interviews (12/2004) from five organizations into a scientifically proven tool that reduces errors, increases donor and staff satisfaction and saves staff time. QDS had been marketed and supported by Talisman Limited's sister company, Talisman Medical Systems (Talmed). _____ History Talisman Limited had been founded founded in 1982 by Paul D. Cumming, PhD. Dr. Cumming (Company President) serving as Principal Investigator on SBIR grants awarded the company by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The original purpose of the company had been to provide corporate means for completing a NHLBI sponsored study of the Impact of Adenine on Blood Banking at the time when Dr. Cumming was changing employment from Science Applications International Corporation to the American National Red Cross (ANRC). When Dr. Cumming left the ANRC in 1989, he transformed Talisman Ltd. into a systems consulting firm engaged in support work related to litigation, regulatory compliance, blood donor history screening, transmissible disease testing, statistical consulting and database integration. Principal of firm is now of advanced age and seems likely to have retired.
