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)

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Effects of the waiting list and donations