What is organ donation and what is the process?
U.S transplant system:
They work all day everyday towards their organ matching system
In 2024, 48,000+ transplants were performed
The most that had happened in a year
On average 132 transplants performed everyday
8 lives can be saved from one organ donor
170+ million people are organ donors in the US
100,00 people are on the transplant wait list
Organs that can be transplanted:
Liver
Kidney
Pancreas
Heart
Lung
Intestine
Vascularized composite allografts
Transplant journey:
Technologies and innovations (their tools from data-driven research)
Organ trackers: gps that tracks where organ shipments are
Predictive analytics: predicts how long the wait will be for a patient to get an organ and their survival rate
Offer filters: filters organ offers for providers to match organs more quickly (their words)
SimUNet: utilizes behavioral science research to help increase the number of transplants (their words)