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Transplantation of organs, tissues or cells from a healthy donor to a patient is a complex process involving tissue typing, transplant immunology, donor availability, matching criteria, transplant coordination and skilled personnel. Oslo University Hospital requires laboratory information systems for transplant immunology integrated with decision support systems, work-up mapping and post-transplant follow-up registries.
The aim of the project is to develop a software solution completely covering the workflow of the Transplant Immunology laboratory at Oslo University Hospital, integrated with decision-making tools for combining available donors with recipients and registries to evaluate long-term patient outcome.
Our team combines excellence in IT-solutions for tissue typing and matching in Steiner LLC (Limited Liability Company), with laboratory and clinical expertise from Oslo University Hospital. In Norway, we perform all transplant immunology, organ transplantations and matching for stem cell transplantations in one center. This gives us a unique opportunity to develop and test the effect of our new Transplant Immunology decision support System (TRIMMUS), covering all steps from registering samples in the Transplant Immunology laboratory via decision support tools for combining available donors with recipients to evaluation of long-term results after transplantation. TRIMMUS will replace manual data transfer, thus reducing the risk of human errors. TRIMMUS will also present all relevant compatibility data and run algorithms to facilitate quick and appropriate counselling and decision-making, thus providing the best possible care.
Steiner LLC supplies software technology and Oslo University Hospital provides the medical expertise to develop algorithms and evaluate the performance of each algorithm, as well as the entire solution. Finally, we will use the results of the post-transplant outcome to improve pre-transplant matching algorithms.