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HRSA Strengthens the Nation's Transplant Data Infrastructure |
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is taking an important step to strengthen the nation’s procurement and transplant data infrastructure and enhance the data and analytic resources that support patients, researchers, health care professionals, and the broader organ donation, procurement, and transplantation community by transitioning procurement and transplant data infrastructure to secure, modernized, government-managed systems. |
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When Congress established the OPTN, it also recognized the importance of scientific research and analysis in improving the national system. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) was established to support this important function, using data and scientific analysis to advance understanding of donation, procurement, and transplantation, and help improve outcomes for patients over time.
HRSA is strengthening this support through the Transplant Data Services (TDS), a modern, cloud-based data platform designed to replace multiple legacy systems that often produce redundant or conflicting information. TDS will serve as the data backbone and authoritative source for procurement and transplant data, including the datasets and analyses produced by the SRTR. This modernized infrastructure will create greater consistency and efficiency in how transplant data are maintained and used, helping ensure that analyses across the transplant community are based on consistent underlying information.
The transition of IT infrastructure from SRTR to TDS has been ongoing for the past year and is expected to be completed by Dec. 1, 2026.
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The SRTR will continue its important scientific and analytic role, accessing procurement and transplant data from TDS and using those data to continue providing the reports, research support, analyses, and other resources relied upon by the transplant community. These SRTR products will be generated on secure, government-managed systems, rather than contractor-owned systems.
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The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is a public-private partnership that manages the U.S. organ donation and transplant system to provide transplants and support transplant patients. It establishes and enforces national policies for organ allocation, ensuring fairness and efficiency in matching organs from deceased donors with transplant candidates. |
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