The new database for the national transplant data system was developed by UNOS' Information Technology Department. This is a first.
Most people use the Internet for business or entertainment.
The transplant community is using it to share life. The new system, called UNet sm , is used by both transplant hospitals and organ procurement organizations. Accessing a secured Website, hospitals list patients on the UNOS transplant waiting list. When an organ becomes available, the organization that recovers it uses the same Website to match the organ to the proper patient. The hospital is then contacted and offered the organ for the matched patient.