The government continues digitization in the field of health, by developing a new IT platform that will allow the National Transplant Registry to ensure the traceability of donation and transplantation activities of organs, tissues and cells of human origin for therapeutic purposes, according to European recommendations.
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It is a decision that will increase the transparency and predictability of organ donation for patients on the waiting list, it is stated in a Government notice, which announces the adoption, in the Government meeting of Wednesday, October 16, 2024, of a decision regarding the National Register of Transplant.
in the meeting of the Government of Romania on October 16, 2024
The configuration of the IT platform was carried out through the Modern Software Solutions program “National Transplant Registry” (RNT), within the SIPOCA 696 project “Improving the regulatory process in the field of transplantationi”, and the information was completely transferred to the server of the National Transplantation Agency.
“The new computer system will allow the permanent entry of data related to donors, the updating of data of patients on the waiting list, thus facilitating the decision to allocate available organs, highlighting the traceability of organs and patients, as well as updating and generating data in real time in all health facilities where activities or procedures in the field are carried out transplant”, states the Government of Romania.
“It will be possible to filter the lists of patients for whom there is compatibility with the available organ”
After entering the information on the availability of a donor/an organ into the National Transplant Registry, an automatic matching operation will be possible between that organ and the active patients on the waiting list.
“The scoring rules regarding the compatibility between the donor and the patient will be able to be defined in the administration module, based on the medical information available in the system for the patient and, respectively, for the donor. It will also be possible to filter the lists of patients for whom there is compatibility with the available organ, depending on other information available in the patient profile (e.g. age, severity, length of time on the waiting list, etc.)”it is also shown in the information.
The approved decision establishes regulations regarding the collection and processing of personal data within the RNT, in compliance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) no. 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, as well as the relevant national legislation in the field of data protection.
The National Transplant Registry is owned by the Ministry of Health and administered by the National Transplant Agency.
The decision establishes the duties of the National Transplant Agency, as coordinator, as well as the obligations of the Ministry of Health.
