NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT
the underlying technology .”
Another crucial partner has been Vodafone , Powell says , which provides all of NHSBT ’ s connectivity and telephony contracts . “ Our collaboration with Vodafone gives us the network capability to access these services and to access them in a reliable way , and the bandwidth across our network to allow us to access and make heavy use of cloud-based services .”
On the organ donation and transplantation side , NHSBT has started to use the intelligent computing capabilities of the IBM Business Process Management Solution in order to develop a set of allocation rules . “ With this we can change more flexibly over time to respond to clinical needs and clinical practices around organ allocation , to ensure that the maximum number of people have access to organ transplantation as a therapy and we make best use of the organs that are available to us from donors .”
Organ allocation schemes are designed to balance equity and utility – fundamentally to make
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