1. OPO Committee
Fall 2014

2. Policy Implementation Dates
Imminent and Eligible Death Data Definitions
The Board of Directors approved the resolution to delay implementation until 1/1/2016
Small programming effort required
Update online help documentation in Waitlist, DonorNet and Tiedi
Planning education efforts for 2015
During the OPO Committee meeting on September 23rd, the Committee was provided with an update from HRSA staff regarding CMS action to accept the OPTN definitions. CMS could make changes to their internal processes (interpretive guidelines) that will allow the OPTN to begin collecting data using the new definitions starting on January 1, The Committee was told that CMS will make a decision by the end of October. We were notified that CMS will not adopt the new definitions by Jan 1, and the Board of Directors approved a resolution from the committee to delay implementation until January 1, 2016.
The Committee’s education subcommittee is developing an instructional tool that will be available next year. The tool will give professionals background on the changes to the definitions. It will also include a crosswalk of changes, compliance issues, and CMS implications.

3. Ongoing Committee Initiatives
Limit paper documentation that gets packaged and shipped with organs
Define essential paperwork
Upload documents to DonorNet
Seek input from Transplant Coordinator and Administrator Committees
The subcommittee discussed the essential “paper information” that should be packaged and shipped with organs such as ABO results and infectious disease results.
The documents that would be uploaded to DonorNet include: anatomy, authorization/consent forms, packaging documentation, and the death pronouncement, etc.
Finally, we will consult with the Transplant Coordinators Committee and the Transplant Administrators Committee on how to develop guidance and what potential policy changes to make.

4. Ongoing Committee Initiatives
Collaborating on joint projects with:
Operations and Safety Committee
Thoracic Committee
Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee
Ethics Committee
Kidney Committee
Liver Committee
We are working on various projects in conjunction with multiple committees:
ETT Project (with Operations and Safety)
Hope Act Work Group (with DTAC, Operations and Safety)
Marking Kidney Laterality (with Kidney Committee)
Rerunning the Match Run (with DTAC and Operations/Safety)
Infectious Disease Verification (with Operation/Safety)
Vessel Labels (with Operations/Safety)
Heart-Lung Allocation and EVLP (with Thoracic Committee)
Sharing Updated Donor Information (with DTAC)
Imminent Death Donation (with Ethics Committee)
Simultaneous Liver-Kidney (with Liver and Kidney Committees)
Limit Paper Documentation

5. Questions? Sean Van Slyck Committee Chair svanslyck@ctdn.org
Regional Rep name (RA will complete) Region X Representative address
Robert Hunter Committee Liaison