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Organ Trail
- nlawalker 8y agoFor those who come straight to the comments, this is about an Etherium dApp for tracking and tracing organ transplants, not the game parodying Oregon Trail.
- account23456789 8y agoI don't know, maybe don't use a pun to name something so serious. I wouldn't trust it if I actually needed an organ.
- mikepurvis 8y agoPretty sure this is just a hackathon project. Maybe I'm just not thinking big enough or whatever, but timely delivery of donated organs seems like exactly the kind of problem well suited to a fully accountable specialized courier working for a centralized medical authority. What benefit is gained by the trustless/distributed nature of blockchain here? Are there significant populations of donated organs which are lost due to logistical screwups? Does an analysis of the incidents where that has happened show that the root causes would have been fixed by using this approach instead?
- mgkimsal 8y agoAnonymous organ purchases?
- ako 8y agoI once worked on an application to register donor and organ characteristics during transplantation (to speed up match of finding a receiving patient). Weirdest testing phase ever, being in the OR, seeing a surgeon remove a heart from a donor and putting it a coolbox...