Web-based Notification System for an Organ Transplant Process Christiane T. M. Ulka 1 , Rosemery G. N. Erlacher 2 , Thiago Z. R. dos Santos 2 , Karin S. Komati 1 , Paulo S. dos Santos Jr. 1 and Rodrigo F. Calhau 1 1 Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (Ifes) - Campus Serra, Rodovia ES-010 - Km 6,5 – Manguinhos, Serra/ES, Brazil youkaiyui@gmail.com, {kkomati, paulo.junior, calhau}@ifes.edu.br 2 Central de Notificação, Captação e Distribuição de Órgãos do Espírito Santo (CNCDO/ES), Av. Joubert de Barros, nº 555 Bento Ferreira, Vitória/ES, Brazil Rosemeryerlacher@hotmail.com, thiagozacha@yahoo.com.br Abstract In Brazil, the CNCDOs (Notification, Organ Procurement and Distribution Centers) are responsible for coordinating the activities of the organ's transplant within each state and the Federal District, making the subscriptions and the ranking of the receivers, collecting notifications of potential donors and coordinating the logistics of the entire donation process, from diagnosis of brain death, the approach to the donor's family and removal and distribution of organs. Currently, the process of death notification takes place without any support of a computer system. The death are communicated by paper reports via fax machines, which is a very time consuming process. A web system is been developed to improve the interaction between hospitals, CNCDO and human organ banks. 1 Introduction An organ transplant is a surgical operation where a failing or damaged organ in the human body is removed and replaced with another one. When a person falls ill because one of his or her organs is failing, the doctor first assesses whether the person is medically eligible for a transplant. If so, it is necessary to evaluate the patient’s health and mental status to see if the person is a viable candidate for an organ transplant. If the patient is a transplant candidate a donor organ must be found. If a person does not have a readily available living donor or is ineligible for a living donation, they are placed into a waiting pool. The flow of information in the process of donation and transplantation consists of several steps, which usually starts with the identification of a potential organ donor to the distribution of organs and transplants themselves. The identification of a person with brain death, for example, in a hospital requires a medical evaluation and implementation of clinical Supplemental Term of Brain Death Certificate (Resolution of Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine nº 1,480 of 08/08/1997). Upon the identification of a potential donor, the hospital must immediately notify the CNCDO (Notification, Organ Procurement and Distribution Center). This notification is a requirement specified in Art.18 of