| News From Transplant Week of Sept. 16, 2001 / Vol. 2 No. 37 |
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LifePage Program to Distribute Two-Way Pagers to Waiting List |
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The LifePage program, which provides pagers to patients on U.S. organ transplant waiting lists, announced it is going to begin distributing two-way pagers enabling patients to immediately respond to notification that an organ has become available. At present, more than 32,000 of the 78,000 Americans waiting for organ transplants carry one-way pagers, enabling hospitals to contact them. The patient then needs to get to a phone and call the hospital. The LifePage program, sponsored by the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) Foundation, said it now intends to put Motorola Talkabout T900 two-way messaging devices into the hands of patients, letting them receive notification, reply, and exchange text messages with any e-mail address. Kidney and liver transplant patients and coordinators from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have been participating in a pilot program using the two-way messaging devices. "For those awaiting
organ transplants, every second counts, especially the time between
finding a viable organ and the actual operation," said Anne
Riser, director of the PCIA Foundation. "The Motorola Talkabout
T900 provides patients and doctors with a fast and easy way to
communicate regardless of phone access, making this wireless device
an ideal communication tool for the LifePage program." Other sources: LifePage |
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