Innovative and automated donor referral technology enabling donation.

Identifying and referring potential organ and tissue donors is a manual, time-consuming process. Initial referral phone calls divert nurses away from their critically ill patients and strain the resources of M.E./Coroners with heavy caseloads.

InVita’s iReferral® offers a ground-breaking solution, automating the referral process for hospitals and M.E./Coroners to their partnering organ and tissue recovery organizations.

Through secure interfaces between referring EHRs (Epic, Cerner, etc.) and iTransplant®, iReferral identifies all potential donors who meet predetermined clinical criteria and electronically transmits the referral to the hospital’s federally designated organ procurement organization’s (OPOs) iTransplant system, liberating ICU nurses and organ procurement organization staff, from manual, time-consuming donor referral phone calls.

iReferral’s secure interfaces between iTransplant and case management systems automates out-of-hospital death referrals, easing the burden on medical examiner and coroner staff.

This automation eliminates the risks of human error and delays expediting the referral process. This advancement has proven to increase referrals, donors, and organs, tissues, and corneas for transplantation while improving communication between referring facilities and recovery organizations.
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iReferral

Innovative and automated donor referral technology enabling donation.

Identifying and referring potential organ and tissue donors is a manual, time-consuming process. Initial referral phone calls divert nurses away from their critically ill patients and strain the resources of M.E./Coroners with heavy caseloads.

InVita’s iReferral® offers a ground-breaking solution, automating the referral process for hospitals and M.E./Coroners to their partnering organ and tissue recovery organizations.

Through secure interfaces between referring EHRs (Epic, Cerner, etc.) and iTransplant®, iReferral identifies all potential donors who meet predetermined clinical criteria and electronically transmits the referral to the hospital’s federally designated organ procurement organization’s (OPOs) iTransplant system, liberating ICU nurses and organ procurement organization staff, from manual, time-consuming donor referral phone calls.

iReferral’s secure interfaces between iTransplant and case management systems automates out-of-hospital death referrals, easing the burden on medical examiner and coroner staff.

This automation eliminates the risks of human error and delays expediting the referral process. This advancement has proven to increase referrals, donors, and organs, tissues, and corneas for transplantation while improving communication between referring facilities and recovery organizations.

Benefits:

  • Identifies all potential donors who meet predetermined clinical criteria, removing the risk of human delays and errors that jeopardize potential referrals.
  • Transmits referrals from hospital, medical examiner, and coroner electronic systems to the donation organization’s iTransplant system.
  • Instantly creates new potential donor cases without manual data entry.
  • Strengthens regulatory compliance (e.g. CMS, JCAHO, state requirements) with unique referral ID numbers automatically generated by iTransplant.
  • Increases transplant rates and performance by identifying referrals sooner and shortening the time from referral to transplant.
  • Streamlines integration with EHR.

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“Lifebanc is pleased to have been among the first users of the iReferral technology that enables hospitals to send electronic referrals directly to the Organ Procurement Organization. This cutting-edge technology has helped us and the hospitals streamline processes and devote more to the patients, donors and recipients.”

— Gordon Bowen, CEO, Lifebanc

Quick information exchange for life-saving decisions.

Eliminate referral phone calls. Save hours of staff time.

During an initial referral phone call, nursing and provider staff take an average of 20 minutes to read chart information from the EHR to staff at the organ donation agency, who manually re-enter the data into their iTransplant system. iReferral automates this process and reduces the time from 20 minutes to five seconds.

iReferral electronically transmits referral information to the organ donation agency’s iTransplant system automatically – eliminating the initial referral phone call, alleviating staff overload, and saving hours of time every month. Upon receiving the referral data, iTransplant automatically opens and populates a new referral case without manual data entry.

Identify every potential donor opportunity for immediate case evaluation.

iReferral automatically identifies and electronically delivers every potential donor that meets predetermined criteria for immediate case evaluation by the organ donation agency.

Where deployed, iReferral has been demonstrated to increase the number of potential organ referrals, the number of organs, tissues, and corneas recovered, and the number of successful transplants.
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Maintain compliance with timely referrals.

Timely referrals are pivotal to maintain compliance in the donation-transplant community. iReferral supports compliance by providing clinical staff with confirmation via the patient’s MRN from the donation organization. This ensures adherence to regulatory standards.

Referral ID numbers, generated by the donation organization’s iTransplant System, are transferred to the respective hospital or medical examiner EMR system. This seamless integration fortifies regulatory compliance.

iReferral for hospitals, medical examiners, and coroners.

Having the right resources matters when seconds count. Effective organ, tissue, or corneal transplants rely on quick, efficient information exchanges, fostering immediate collaboration and synchronization between donation organizations, donor hospital teams, medical examiners, and coroners.

iReferral connects this community, automating the donor referral process, liberating hospital, medical examiner, and coroner resources. The system automatically identifies all potential tissue and eye donors, and instantly delivers donor referrals to the donation agency’s iTransplant system. This streamlined process helps increase and expedite donation and transplantation outcomes.
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“Lifebanc is pleased to have been among the first users of the iReferral technology that enables hospitals to send electronic referrals directly to the Organ Procurement Organization. This cutting-edge technology has helped us and the hospitals streamline processes and devote more to the patients, donors and recipients.”

— Gordon Bowen, CEO, Lifebanc

iReferral® has been in successful use since 2018 and is deployed today at well over 130 hospitals and more than 30 medical examiners & coroners’ offices.

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