It financed an expansion of the National Marrow Donor Program, which has a registry called Be the Match.
The second piece of software is a glorified version of the registry, called Lifelegacy.
The registry, called Persons-at-Risk, is meant to help the police find people who might become lost.
In practice, though, patients' fears and denial, combined with doctors' reluctance to deliver unhappy news, means that "patients aren't being engaged early enough," said Dr. Allan Collins, who heads a registry called the United States Renal Data System Coordinating Center.
It supports the disclosure program created by the Ground Water Protection Council for listing chemicals in fracturing fluids on a Web site registry called FracFocus, which already includes data for 16,000 wells from more than 200 companies.
The changes made during an application install, while the server is in install mode, are placed into a special location in the registry called the shadow registry.
Founder Rachel Blumenthal previously launched an online baby registry called Cricket's Circle, out of which Rockets of Awesome ultimately evolved.
Along with Offit, Couch, and others, she has developed an online registry called PROMPT that opened earlier this fall.
Donor organs are matched to waiting recipients by a national computer registry called the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).
In 1981, a breed registry, called the American Welara Pony Registry, was created in the US in order to develop and promote the breed.
