Forbes August 17, 2020
In March 2020, there were more than 110,000 people on the national transplant waiting list. According to the U.S. Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation, 20 people die every day while waiting for an organ donor transplant. And every nine minutes, someone is added to the national transplant list. In 2019, 39,718 transplant operations were performed, which was a record high for the seventh consecutive year.
A new app, AlloCare from CareDx (NASDAQ: CDNA) uses AI and machine learning to help transplant patients track, monitor and manage their daily medicine doses, blood pressure, urine output, sleep, steps and weight. The AI models input from each of these factors and gives the patient a daily tracking score to monitor their...
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