Big Tech, Startups Look to Revamp Troubled Organ Donation System

Old guard and upstart tech companies, niche nonprofits, government consulting firms, and university researchers are among the hundreds of organizations and individuals looking to help revamp and modernize the nation’s organ donation and transplant system.

For nearly 40 years, a single nonprofit organization has held the lone federal contract to manage the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a public-private partnership that operates the national organ waiting list and the computer system that matches those patients with newly donated organs.

But legislation signed by President Joe Biden in September (Public Law 118-14) will allow multiple contractors to manage OPTN ...