There are over 100,000 transplant candidates on the waitlist for an organ in the US. Many patients will die due to the scarcity of donated organs. Organ allocation policies regulate how the donated organs are shared among transplant candidates. Setting the patients’ priorities is a challenging task leading to a great complexity of organ allocation rules. Turning these policies into computable law would allow for policies’ visualization supporting the policy development process and enhancing the system transparency. More importantly, computational organ allocation policy can mechanically check its consistency. The policy inconsistency can potentially lead to the exclusion of some groups of patients from the opportunity of receiving a life-saving organ. Furthermore, in the operational setting, the organ allocation policies are executed by the organ-patient matching software. Hence, computational organ allocation policies could be directly deployed in clinical and research software.

Project Leader: Michal Mankowski