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01 Jun 2009
Life-Saving Network
Topics: Health-Health Care and TreatmentCommunication-Communication TechnologyTechnology-SoftwareTechnology-Technology NetworksHBS professor Al Roth, along with two economists from Boston College, has created software that facilitates the process of donating kidneys. Through it, transplants can still be arranged even if a willing donor and recipient — a husband and wife, for example — aren’t compatible. Instead, they can give and receive from others who, like them, have signed on to a larger computerized network that matches willing donors and recipients. Said Roth, “There are 70,000 people waiting for a kidney. I don’t think it solves the whole problem, but it solves these problems one patient at a time.” For more information, visit www.nepke.org/.
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