New public dashboard aims to track the fairness of the allocation of organ donations

In an effort to make sure organ transplant matches are fair, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new public online tracking tool .

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“Since the beginning of transplantation, there has always been a shortage of organs, not enough to go around for all the people who could benefit,” said Dr. Thomas Fishbein, executive director of the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute.

He said the newly launched dashboard from the HHS is an effort to track whether organs are being fairly assigned.

“There’s always a balance between, in a sense, the e