Software support for organ transplant management.

This paper focuses on the Organ Transplant Management (OTM) process defined as the set of activities that need to be coordinated before the surgery operation itself can take place. The main goal is to understand how the different OTM tasks are interrelated, in order to build an innovative software system that aims to support medical practitioners involved in the various decision-making steps. The current work and the extensive discussions with experts in this area provided ground for the definition of the OTM system. We argue that this tool, when integrated in real hospitals and transplant centres, will facilitate many of the tasks currently performed by humans, and will allow optimisation of precious resources such as time and personnel.