Study Mandated to Improve Electronic Organ Donor Referral Systems.
This law requires a study to evaluate how hospitals currently use automated electronic systems to identify potential organ donors. The goal is to determine if these systems can speed up the process, reduce staff workload, and potentially increase the number of successful transplants. While the act doesn't change donation rules now, its findings could lead to future improvements in life-saving organ procurement.
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The government will study how automated computer systems in hospitals can identify potential organ donors more quickly and effectively using electronic health records.
The analysis will assess benefits like saving medical staff time and potentially increasing the volume of organs available for transplantation.
Within one year, the Secretary of Health must report to Congress with recommendations for nationwide implementation of these electronic referral systems.
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