Accessing an encrypted, password-protected secure 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. This is a first.
Most people use the Internet for business or entertainment.
The transplant community is using it to share life. In its infancy, UNet had 13,000 data elements stored in a 14 GB database. That has climbed to 16,886 data elements in a 166 GB database. To prepare the application for launch, employees logged in more than 30,000 initial development hours. The Smithsonian Institute recently recognized UNOS life-saving organ matching system by incorporating it into the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology.