An IT system to support organ donations
Development of an IT system for the German Organ Procurement Organization
There are approximately 8,400 critically ill individuals across Germany awaiting organ transplants. The German Organ Procurement Organization (DSO) provides support to hospitals in the process of organ donation following death. In this capacity, the organisation ensures the prompt transfer of the donor's organ to the recipient. In 2023, for example, 2,985 organs were transferred. This is a task that requires urgency, and the process needs to be as efficient as possible. For this reason, the DSO has commissioned our Accsonauts to develop a new IT system based on C# and .NET. The intention is to support and expand the existing processes with modern, easy-to-use input interfaces.
Three facts about organ donation
Speeding up organ donation with software: Networking with all care partners
For an organ to reach a suitable patient in a timely manner, a large number of well-coordinated medical and organizational steps must be taken into account. The appropriate partners, such as hospitals, transplant centers, medical laboratories, and transport companies, must all be involved. An enormous amount of logistical and medical information is generated through this process, which is collected by different groups of people and centrally managed and processed by the software developed as part of the collaboration with Accso.
“The design of the numerous user interfaces and the presentation of the complex information are the biggest tasks in the project. The processes must be designed with great flexibility for all parties.”Dr. Wulf OberschultePartner
A modern system for hospitals and laboratories
The Accso project team is developing modern and user-friendly input interfaces based on C# and .NET in close cooperation with the user groups involved in the software.
The new system allows different access profiles for hospitals, transplant centers, laboratories, service partners, and DSO employees. Furthermore, new messages and media, such as e-mail, SMS, micro-websites, and decentralized recording of medical data in hospitals and laboratories, are now possible. This means that important information can be viewed directly by everyone involved.
