“Within the last two years I’ve seen the UNOS team at work on electronic notification algorithms, APIs to help with seamless data exchange for image sharing, organ offer filters and mobile applications, to name a few. All of this work helps to improve and make organ allocation as efficient of a process as possible.”
I am not sure if the organ donation and transplant community is fully appreciative of all of the behind-the-scenes work done by the UNOS IT departments to make sure new organ allocation policies and changes to procedures occur seamlessly.
Additionally, the UNOS team is continuously reaching out to the community for innovative ideas from other groups such as the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations. The practice of continually involving the community ensures that UNOS is engaged with the pulse of the people involved with organ allocation, and it provides another prospective to help the organization focus on the needs of the community.
