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A Cloud Application That Saves Lives

in Enterprise on April 5, 2011 at 5:06 pm PT

Matching people who need kidney transplants with compatible donors is a profoundly complex problem. A software company veteran who once needed a kidney himself has found a way to help hospitals speed up the search for donors.

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Jobs's Transplant Highlights Differing Wait Times

in News on June 19, 2009 at 9:01 pm PT

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’s decision to travel to Tennessee for a liver highlights the significant disparities in transplant waiting times across the country–the source of a longstanding controversy over the fairest way to distribute scarce organs.