KEPsoft Collaborative
Software and Services for National and International Kidney Exchange Programmes
KEPsoft Collaborative is a not-for-profit social enterprise spin-out company of the University of Glasgow, INESC TEC, HUN-REN-KRTK and Óbuda University. It is built upon an interdisciplinary European community that has been collaborating since 2016 through two COST-funded projects, namely ENCKEP (European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programmes) and KEP-SOFT (Software for Transnational Kidney Exchange Programmes).
software and services for national and international KEPs, provided via the KEPsoft platform;
advisory and coordination services for organisations seeking to establish software-based KEPs;
not-for-profit access to a European community of transplantation organisations and other collaborators, to share KEP experiences and best practices and co-govern advancement of the KEPsoft software and services that incorporate this shared knowledge base.
A primary activity of KEPsoft Collaborative is to market, licence, distribute, deploy, maintain, develop and customise KEPsoft.
KEPsoft is a flexible, modular software platform to enable transplantation organisations to manage the workflow associated with national and international KEPs.
KEPs increase the potential for living kidney donation by facilitating the swap of donors among incompatible recipient-donor pairs in such a way that each recipient is matched with a compatible donor. This is also sometimes referred to as KPD (Kidney Paired Donation).
Founding Members
