Transplant Connect has introduced innovative new technology known as iReferralSM, and Cerner Corporation announced their new collaboration to enable automated donor referrals. This new technology is designed to help increase and expedite potential organ, tissue and eye donor referrals to increase recipient matches, lessen missed opportunities for timely donation and reduce the number of hours caregivers spend on the donor referral process. This automation is especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic as intensive-care units are overburdened. U.S. hospitals are required to provide timely notification to its designated organ-procurement organization (OPO) of every potential organ, tissue and eye donor, as required by regulations?from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services. The need for good donors is significant in the U.S., according to the Health Resources and Services Administration: Every 9 minutes, a person is added to the U.S. transplant waiting list. More than 106,000 adults and children are currently on the list. About 39,000 transplants were performed in 2020 in the U.S. 17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant in the U.S. Cerner Millennium EHR and Transplant Connect's iReferral interface engine will?integrate to allow a seamless and near real-time donor identification and referral process, delivering critical information from Cerner Millennium into the iTransplant Donor Management Platform, operated by Transplant Connect and utilized by organ-procurement organizations to manage their donor cases and facilitate donation and transplant. Through this process, a potential donor is identified and seamlessly referred to the?organ-procurement organization via an electronic "organ donation order" where all pertinent information is sent to the organ-procurement organization's iTransplant Donor Management System. The system then sends back a notification confirming the details have been received. This new automated process replaces the much more time-consuming and labor-intensive phone-based referral process and is designed to improve the efficiency of the organ donation workflow, thereby decreasing errors caused by manual data transfer and increasing the chances of a positive organ outcome.