Saving lives together
  • Sitemap
  • Give now
  • UNet
    • Login
    • UNet System Status
    • About
UNOS
  • Organ donors
    • Saving lives together
      • Data & trends >

      • Why be an organ donor?

        Currently, more than 100,000 men, women and children are awaiting organ transplants in the U.S.

        1 organ donor can save up to 8 lives.

        Register now
    • In honor
      • National Donor Memorial
      • National Donate Life Month
    • About
      • About organ donation
      • Deceased donation
      • Living donation
      • UNOS Organ Center
    • Advocate
      • Advocacy
  • Patients
    • Essentials
      • Data & trends >

    • About
      • Transplant & waiting list
      • Deceased donation
      • Living donation
      • FAQs
      • Increasing transplants
    • How it works
      • How we match organs
    • Resources
      • Create a giving page
      • Advocacy
      • All
  • Professionals
    • Essentials
      • Data & trends >

      • APIs
      • UNet℠
      • Offer Filters
      • Predictive analytics
      • TransNet℠
    • Saving more lives
      • Innovative tools and research to solve your challenges

        Explore UNOS Solutions
      • UNOS Transplant Management Forum 2025, May 5-7, San Antonio TexasLearn more and register
    • Resources
      • News
      • Education
      • Effective practices
      • Toolkits
      • All
    • Community
      • How to apply
      • Events
      • TMF
      • Region 5 Educational Collaborative
      • UNOS Primer
  • Media
    • Essentials
      • Data & trends >

      • Media resources
      • Press releases
      • Advocacy
    • Fast facts
      • UNOS facts
      • The national organ transplant system
      • Organ procurement organizations
  • About
    • Saving lives together
      • Data & trends >

      • There are an average of 132 organ transplants every day.

        We’re working to increase this number. You can help.

        Give now
    • UNOS
      • About UNOS
      • Our mission
      • Leadership
      • UNOS board
      • Careers
      • The U.S. Organ Donation & Transplantation System
    • Donation & transplant
      • How we match organs
      • FAQs
      • The national system
      • Technology
    • Get involved
      • Advocacy
      • Create a fundraiser
Select Page
Implementation notice: Standardize six-minute walk for lung allocation

Implementation notice: Standardize six-minute walk for lung allocation

Sep 3, 2024 | Heart/lung, News, Policy changes, Transplant hospital

New policy requirement in effect that requires lung transplant programs to perform an oxygen titration test ahead of initial the six-minute walk test.

Implementation notice: Standardize six-minute walk for lung allocation

Pre-implementation notice: Standardize six-minute walk for lung allocation

Aug 21, 2024 | Heart/lung, News, Policy changes, Transplant hospital

A new policy requirement is going in effect that will require lung transplant programs to perform an oxygen titration test ahead of the initial six-minute walk test.

Transplant programs, OPOs must specify second Patient Safety Contact as of July 25

Transplant programs, OPOs must specify second Patient Safety Contact as of July 25

Jul 15, 2024 | News, Patient safety, Policy changes

The secondary contact will be notified if the primary cannot be reached.

Liver treatment options added for HCC exception candidates

Liver treatment options added for HCC exception candidates

Jun 27, 2024 | Liver/intestine, News, UNet℠ system changes

Additional diagnosis code changes to be implemented in a later phase.

Offer Filters for liver and heart now available

Offer Filters for liver and heart now available

Jun 13, 2024 | Heart/lung, Liver/intestine, News, UNet℠ system changes

Offer Filters adds data-driven, multi-criteria filters to organ offers at a program level.

New enhancements added to DonorNet

New enhancements added to DonorNet

May 30, 2024 | News, UNet℠ system changes

The enhancements give users quicker access to member contact information and more visibility of the most recent donor record update.

« Older Entries

Data & trends

Data reports and dashboards

Find it fast

What is the waitlist?
Glossary on OPTN website

Quick links

  • SubscribeUNOS Transplant Pro
  • OPTN policy notices | Policies
  • OPTN evaluation plan
  • OPTN data reports
  • TransNetSM resources
  • UNetSM University
  • UNetSM system notices

Access UNetSM

Give now
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • LinkedIn
  • LinkedIn
  • LinkedIn

United Network for Organ Sharing

UNOS is a nonprofit organization with decades of experience in helping save lives through research, technology, innovation and education. Learn more.

Contact us

Resources

  • Enewsletters
  • OPTN (Government site)

UNOS Store

  • Professional resources
  • UNOS promotional items

Honoring donors

  • National Donor Memorial
  • Give in tribute
  • Be an organ donor

Get involved

  • Events
  • Careers
  • Advocacy
  • UNOS Ambassadors
  • Invest in research

Latest news

Tales from the OR and how Congress can help

UNOS Chief Medical Officer Dr. Andrew Klein shares first-hand experiences as a liver transplant surgeon, and how Congressional action can help strengthen the system.

Waitlist deaths decrease under UNOS’ operation of nation’s organ system

The average number of people dying per day waiting for a transplant has dropped under UNOS’ operation of the U.S. organ donation and transplant system.

TMF 2025 speaker Ankit Mathur on AI in Transplant and OPO Operations

By gaining a better understanding of data analytics, predictive data models and AI technologies in organ transplantation, we can foster more thoughtful and informed conversations about the possibilities they offer moving forward.

All news

© 2025 United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization | Guidestar | Sitemap | Legal