Governance

Committees

OrganMatch has multiple levels of governance set up to oversee and maintain specific aspects of the product and related policies and guidelines.

OrganMatch Operational Governance Committee (OMOGC)

The purpose of the OrganMatch Operational Governance Committee is to provide governance and oversight of the OrganMatch system to support the donation and transplantation sector by streamlining and improving current organ offering, allocation and acceptance practices – targeted at best outcomes for patients. 

The key functions of the Committee are to provide governance, direction and oversight of OrganMatch including: 

  • Evaluation, approval and prioritisation of proposed enhancements, operational change requests, and patch releases for the OrganMatch system.  
  • Review of Managed Services, Work Orders and Service Level Agreements 
  • Oversight of the OrganMatch budget including monitoring progress against budgets  
  • Review of the performance of the OrganMatch system, including incidents and outcomes as well as feedback from the Portal User Groups (Donation, Transplantation, Lab Portals) 
  • Any other matters pertaining to the operation and management of the OrganMatch system. 

OrganMatch User Groups

The Donation, Laboratory and Transplantation portal user groups have been established to provide a platform for fostering the ongoing collaboration between end users and the National OrganMatch office (NOMO). 

The key functions of the group are:

  • To assist in providing direction of OrganMatch including initiation of OrganMatch Change requests 
  • To provide advice on the functionality of OrganMatch including: 
    • Waitlist management 
    • Histocompatibility testing
    • Matching and Allocation
    • Transplantation
    • Post transplantation outcomes
    • Organ Offer management
    • Future iterations of OrganMatch 

Terms of Reference of the above committees are available on request. 

Continual system improvements

OrganMatch is continually enhanced to provide additional features, to meet the needs of the Transplantation and Organ donation sector in Australia.

OrganMatch follows Agile Development Methodology, and typically has a 4 or 8-week release cycle. The change requests are received from stakeholders. Once endorsed and prioritised by the OMOGC or the National OrganMatch Office initiate the development and testing cycles, and then released into the web application. 

Information about latest releases and other news can be found on our What's new page.

OrganMatch functionality improvements can be logged using the OrganMatch Change Request Form.

Further information outlining the process for requesting a change to OrganMatch including the evaluation and approval process can be found here OrganMatch Change Proposal Process.

These should be endorsed by appropriate user groups, national and state committees or TSANZ.

Any requests, feedback or questions can be sent to NationalOrganMatchOffice@redcrossblood.org.au

Further information

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It doesn’t matter how old you are, your medical history, your lifestyle, what country you’re from or how healthy you are — you can still register as an organ and tissue donor.

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