In the year since Donate Life America and Epic connected MyChart to the National Donate Life Registry, more than 250,000 people have used MyChart to sign up as organ donors—making it the nation’s leading organ donor registration pathway.
“Surpassing a quarter million registrations in a single year is a monumental achievement. By integrating donor registration into the MyChart portal, Epic has fundamentally changed the landscape of organ donation,” said David Fleming, President and CEO of Donate Life America, the nonprofit organization managing the National Donate Life Registry. “This initiative demonstrates how technology can serve as a direct catalyst for saving lives by creating a pathway for generosity. We are thrilled to collaborate with Epic and look forward to the continued growth of this vital registration path.”
More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant today, and one donor can save up to 8 lives.
April 2026 was the most active month yet as the donation and transplant community celebrated National Donate Life Month. That month, there were more than 42,000 new registrations through MyChart—nearly five times the number of registrations received through the second most common channel.
The MyChart organ donor registration feature allows patients to register as organ, eye, and tissue donors directly through the portal they already use to manage their care. Registrations are added to the National Donate Life Registry automatically and follow patients even if they move to a new state. More than 220 organizations representing 1,300 hospitals and 27,000 clinics have made the feature available to their patients, and even more organizations are implementing it.
In April’s surge of MyChart-enabled registrations, Cleveland Clinic stood out. Cleveland Clinic promoted the new registration pathway in MyChart and saw more than 3,000 registrations in the first two weeks of April alone. That spike immediately made them the national leader in MyChart registrations. As of May 26th, they have seen more than 12,800 total registrations through MyChart.
“With continued clinical advancements in transplantation, donor registration remains the foundation that makes these lifesaving procedures possible,” said Kenneth McCurry, MD, enterprise director of transplantation at Cleveland Clinic. “Offering additional channels to make organ donor registration more accessible increases the potential to save more lives through transplantation. We are grateful to everyone who chooses to register to give the gift of life.”
Roughly 50% of US adults are registered organ donors, but surveys consistently show that 90% support donation. The success of MyChart registration shows that meeting patients where they already are—in the patient portal they use to manage their health—can help close that gap.
Find more organ donation highlights from the Epic community here. In November 2025, DLA honored Epic with its annual James S. Wolf, M.D., Courage Award.
