LifeGift https://www.LifeGift.org, a non-profit organ and tissue donation organization serving 109 Texas counties in southeast, North and West Texas has announced a new partnership to help save more lives through organ donation and transplantation.
LifeGift is teaming up with Baltimore-based MediGO https://www.gomedigo.io, a first of its kind healthcare supply chain technology company in order to technologically enhance the transportation of organs for transplant.
After surgical recovery at the hospital that cared for the organ donor, organs may need to travel long distances to be transplanted into waiting patients. These organs may be transported via courier, ground, or air transportation.
MediGO’s technology will provide LifeGift with real time tracking and life critical estimated times of arrival throughout the transplant process to predict an accurate time of arrival at a hospital or transplant center.
The partnership will help ensure that no matter how far an organ travels, LifeGift and partners will be able to monitor the time sensitive journey at every moment, better manage resources, and improve transplant outcomes.
The critical information available simultaneously to all stakeholders through MediGO’s app, includes precise location data, traffic and weather updates, best and alternative travel routes, flight delays and cancellations, and other vital data collected along the route.
“In real time, MediGO’s technology notifies LifeGift and partners if there are fluctuations in the timeline in the delivery of the organ so that improvements and changes can be made to achieve a successful organ recovery and transplantation” reports, Kevin Myer President and CEO at LifeGift.
Dr. Joseph Scalea, Transplant Surgeon and Co-Founder of MediGO, said, “Most importantly, the transparency that comes from knowing where an organ is at all times gives recipients the best chance of a successful transplant and ultimately saves more lives.”