The Living Bank Chooses Compaq To Power The First Online Organ [...]

📅 March 27, 2002 - The Living Bank, the nation's first non-profit donor education organization, has named Compaq Computer Corporation (compaq.com) its vendor of choice to enhance its national donor registry operations.

Already using Compaq Presario 5000 desktops, The Living Bank (livingbank.org) recently purchased the Compaq ProLiant ML370 and DL380 servers running Microsoft Windows 2000. Offering Compaq Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition, the servers are part of the Compaq Insight Management Suite, and information backup and redundancy, forming the technology foundation for the first Internet-based organ donor registry.
The Compaq ProLiant servers come with Compaq Insight Management Suite tools, including Compaq SmartStart and Compaq Insight Manager. Compaq's SmartStart is aimed at smaller organizations that need to easily configure their ProLiant servers and install the latest operating systems and drivers easily and quickly.
The Living Bank uses Compaq Insight Manager to proactively monitor overall system health, reducing system management costs, improving operational efficiency, and minimizing downtime. Protected by Compaq services, the systems include a three-year, next business day, on-site limited global warranty and extended pre-failure warranty, which covers processors, memory, and hard drives.
To date, the new registry has about 1.2 million donors loaded in the database and is expecting another 400,000 donor names from Nevada, which passed donor registration legislation last June to encourage more organ donations to help reduce the shortage nationwide. The law creates a state donor registry through the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and a task force to promote donation.
Providing an efficient way to download scanned registration forms signed by the donor that can be shown to the next of kin, The Living Bank's new registry connects organ procurement organizations across the country.
?So far, we have assigned about 60 log-on IDs and passwords to organ procurement organizations and we anticipate the number to grow rapidly as awareness of the new Internet-based registry increases,? said Aqeel Rizvi, vice president of Compliance Development Corporation.
?We are scanning filed registration forms and storing images and concurrently The Living Bank has personnel entering new donor information around the clock.''
?Last year alone there was an estimated 20,000 potential donors, but less than 6,000 actual organ donations,'' said Jon Eiche, president and CEO of The Living Bank.
?We hope the technology enhancements will increase the number of donors who can actually carry out their wishes.''