Business intelligence, or BI, is the process of transforming data into meaningful information. Some organizations use these insights to make decisions to improve performance and reduce operational costs, but in transplantation — when data literally
New project aims to better predict organ travel time.
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is offering 11 proposals for public comment beginning on Wed., Jan. 22.
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We encourage patients, transplant candidates and recipients, living donors, donor
Overview of Changes
On Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, several OPTN policy updates will be implemented to eliminate the use of donation service areas, or DSAs, from heart transplantation and replace them with a 250 nautical mile circle. Additionally, the term “zone” will be removed from thoracic (heart and lung) allocation policies and replaced with the actual
Pictured above: The LifePort Transporters were developed after CEO David Kravitz’s father needed a heart transplant. Photos courtesy of Organ Recovery Systems
Audience:
Heart transplant program directors, surgeons, physicians, administrators, clinical coordinators and data coordinators; compliance and quality managers; clinical support staff; OPO executive directors and procurement directors/managers
Implementation date:
January 9, 2020
Overview of Changes
On Thursday, Jan. 9, several OPTN policy updates will be implemented to eliminate the use of donation service areas (DSAs) from heart transplantation and replace them
Audience
All DonorNet® match users
On July 24, 2019, we added a new report feature to the DonorNet match page that shows the distance in nautical miles from the donor hospital to each transplant hospital that appears on the match run. To access this feature, users can simply click on the organ link titled “Show distance to
The University of Washington has moved up one spot to be #3 in the nation. UCLA has joined the list at #7 by completing 57 heart transplants. The UCLA team is led by heart transplant director, Dr. Abbas Ardehali. Also UCSD, and Northwestern have increased their numbers to become top 10 performers. Since starting in 2002, Florida Hospital is
Richmond, Va. – The OPTN Board of Directors, at its meeting June 10, approved new geographic areas to match heart and vascularized composite allograft (VCA) transplant candidates with available organs from deceased donors. Both systems will now be based on distance from the donor hospital to the transplant hospital, replacing fixed and irregular donation service