Organ donation and transplant professionals from around the world convened on March 23 in a town hall webinar aimed at helping health care professionals navigate the ever-evolving COVID-19 health crisis. “Our goal was to share our experiences to date and respond to questions about the impact of COVID-19 on organ donation and transplantation,” said Shandie
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Board of Directors has approved replacing the OPTN Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee with two separate committees – a Heart Transplantation Committee and a Lung Transplantation Commiteee.
The new committees will begin their work on July 1, 2020 and will allow the OPTN to be more representative and responsive
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.
Comments and replies will be published on https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/governance/public-comment/, to promote transparency and trust in the national transplant system. Visitors can also share comments on social media, if they wish.
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