The Health Resources and Services Administration recently certified the computer network year 2000 compliant. An agency contractor performed an independent validation and verification of the system as a final quality assurance check to ensure its operation into the next century. UNOS has conducted an extensive programming effort to ensure that the system will continue to work well into the next century. The UNOS computer system contains a database of all patients waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. When donated organs become available, they are matched with patients on a list generated by the database.
Dates play an important role in how the system operates.
UNOS is a private non-profit organization linking all members of the organ procurement, transplantation and histocompatability communities. It administers the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the U.S. Scientific Registry for Organ Transplantation under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contact Copyright 1995-2001. United Network for Organ Sharing. All Rights Reserved.