The organ donation and transplantation system in the U.S. has never worked better than it does today. But every day, we work to continuously improve and make the system even more effective and efficient to serve all of the patients waiting for a lifesaving transplant.

The organ donation and transplant community is working together to introduce continuous distribution a more fair and flexible approach to allocating donated organs to get the right organ to the right patient at the right time. Our policies have always been data-driven, but this new approach applies advanced analytic techniques to create an algorithm that makes every factor in the match run comparable.

The new framework was approved by the Board of Directors in 2018 as a model for future policy development. It will dissolve hard boundaries that exist in the current, category-based system and ensure that no single factor determines a patient’s priority on the waiting list.