The state and the nonprofit Donate Life Wisconsin unveiled a new app this week at Farm Technology Days in Sun Prairie that allows users to register for organ donation by scanning their drivers license.
The app, called Swipe to Donate Life, is not available to the public directly. Rather, donation officials use it to connect people to the state’s online registry at large, statewide events. Wisconsin is the seventh state to use the tool.
Most people in Wisconsin who wish to be organ donors register at the Department of Motor Vehicles and get an orange dot on their license. Others sign up for the donor registry directly online. But by using Swipe to Donate Life, residents can complete the process in less than a minute.
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“The advantage with signing up online or through this way is that you get an email confirming your decision, and a certificate you can file with your important papers that you can share with your family,” said Martha Mallon, who works in the organ and tissue donation program within the state’s Department of Health Services.
According to Mallon, about 60 percent of Wisconsin residents are registered organ donors.
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