Press Release
SILVERSTONE SOLUTIONS MATCHMAKER SOFTWARE INVOLVED IN
MATCHING FIRST CROSS-COUNTRY THREE-WAY KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
New Matchmaker Software Expected to Accelerate Paired Kidney Donations
and
Give New Hope to Many of the 70,000 People Waiting for Kidney Transplants
San Francisco, CA--April 30, 2007 Silverstone Solutions,
Inc. announced today
that its new software, Silverstone Matchmaker, was used by California Pacific
Medical Center (CPMC – San Francisco, CA) to help match recipients
and donors in a three-way kidney transplant between CPMC and The Johns
Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD). This marks the second kidney transplant
in the past two months in which Silverstone Solutions Matchmaker was been
used by CPMC and represents the very first, three-way transplant ever performed
cross-country between two transplant clinics.
Silverstone Matchmaker is a advanced software application that provides
doctors and clinicians with the analysis tools necessary to rapidly and
accurately match living organ donors with patients who are in need of a
kidney transplant. Using advanced matching and optimization algorithms,
Matchmaker can perform comprehensive donor/recipient pair matches within
minutes, saving transplant clinics the months of work previously required
to fully assess potential pairs.
About Paired Kidney Donation
Paired Kidney Donation matches two or more incompatible donor/recipient
pairs with alternate, compatible pairs. This concept has been around since the
1990s and is viewed as an innovative way to potentially reduce the number of
people on the national kidney organ waitlist. However, very few actual transplants
have been performed using this theory due to the large and complex calculations necessary,
the complexity of shared patient information between individual clinics,
and the general lack of efficient and high-quality computer software tools. More
information about Paired Kidney Donation is available at www.silverstonesolutions.com/paired_donation.html
About Silverstone Solutions and Matchmaker
Silverstone Solutions, an innovator in life science computing, was founded
by David S. Jacobs, a successful software entrepreneur who himself is a kidney
transplant recipient. Driven by his own personal experience, he designed
the company’s flagship product - Silverstone Matchmaker. Matchmaker was
inspired by the need to more effectively utilize scarce, living donor organs and
deliver them to patients in need. This shortens the length of time people spend on the
deceased donor organ list, saves substantial healthcare costs relating to dialysis
treatments, and ultimately helps save lives. More information about the company and
its products is available at www.silverstonesolutions.com.
Press Contact
Joshua Weinberg
Digital Life PR
(415) 777-3339
joshua@DLifepr.com
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