How Technology Is Transforming Organ Procurement

September 22, 2021

(Tech Crunch) – Every year, more than 100,000 people in the United States wait for an organ donation. More than a dozen people will die each day still waiting. Such is the brutal math and the necessary optimism required to work in the organ procurement world. For the past several decades, a private network of now 57 organ procurement organizations (OPOs) have sprouted up, all broadly affiliated with UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a non-profit whose goal is to match donated organs with potential recipients. (Read Full Article)