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Athletic Training Room
Software Vendors |
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| Welcome to the Datalys Center website. |
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| This area of the site has been designed specifically with software vendors in mind. You may have heard about the Datalys Center and the injury surveillance program we are coordinating on behalf of the NCAA. We understand you are likely to have some questions. |
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| If you would like to speak directly with the Datalys Center, please give us a call as we would be more than happy to talk with you. We have provided some background information that provides a quick primer on who Datalys is and what may be of interest to you. |
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| We appreciate your interest in the Datalys Center and look forward to an opportunity to talk with you further about the Datalys Center and our Export Engine program. |
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Best Regards,
Troy D. Hege
President
Datalys Center
317.238.2460
thege@datalyscenter.org |
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| What is the Datalys Center? |
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| Datalys is a national, non-profit (501c3) organization that conducts research and provides research and surveillance expertise to support the sports injury information needs of organizations and individuals focused on improving the health and safety of the growing number of Americans who are physically active and/or participate in sports. Datalys was formed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), BioCrossroads, and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). |
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| What is the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program? |
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| The NCAA has been conducting sports injury surveillance for more than 20 years through the voluntary participation of collegiate athletic trainers. The data collected by the NCAA is used internally as a basis for discussion and decision making by various committees and working groups that govern and influence collegiate sport policy and rules. Overtime, the NCAA’s work in this area has facilitated numerous policy and rule changes that have helped to make the collegiate athletic experience a positive, healthy, and safe experience. |
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| How is the NCAA’s injury surveillance program changing? |
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| Starting with the 2009 – 2010 academic year, the Datalys Center has taken over the management of the NCAA’s Injury Surveillance Program. The program will be different in several ways ranging from the collection of exposures to the technology approach – the latter being what is likely of most interest to you. Datalys is deploying a two-pronged technology approach to better serve the individual needs of the collegiate athletic trainers. |
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| Datalys is deploying a two-pronged technology approach to better serve the individual needs of the collegiate athletic trainers. |
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| Injury Surveillance Tool – Datalys launched the new electronic Injury Surveillance Tool aimed at streamlining the data collection process for schools that are committed to supporting the NCAA’s Injury Surveillance and student athlete health and safety programs. The Datalys Center directly supports the rollout, training, and customer support for the Injury Surveillance Tool in a manner consistent with the NCAA’s past management of the ISS web portal. |
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| Consistent with the previous ISS web portal, the new Injury Surveillance Tool includes functionality for all NCAA Sports, Rosters, Calendar, Injury Reporting, and Injury Case Printing. |
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| The Injury Surveillance Tool does not provide any additional functionality and is not intended to compete with commercially available applications. The Surveillance Tool does not support treatment management. |
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Export Engine – Datalys has created a data transmission standard called Export Engine that allows athletic trainers to download injury surveillance data directly from their existing commercial training room software applications. The Export Engine program has been designed to enable the majority of schools that use a commercial software application to participate in the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program. |
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| The development of the Export Engine program is in direct response to athletic trainers who have consistently communicated to the NCAA that the ability to export sports injury data from their vendor or university systems would be of enormous value. It is our hope and belief that a number of vendors will embrace this approach because of the value it creates for athletic trainers and the meaningful contribution that their participation could make to the field of sports medicine and athlete health and safety. |
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| The Datalys Center does not advocate one technology approach over the other. However, as you might guess the trick is that all the data that comes in through Export Engine has to come in via a common format and data parameters so that the data can be mapped, aggregated, and managed in a consistent, meaningful and useful way. Hence the development of a data transmission standard – called Export Engine – that commercial software vendors can voluntarily chose to adopt. |
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| While we believe vendors will appreciate the importance of facilitating injury surveillance and research to support student athletic health and safety, not all vendors will agree to participate in the program. The Export Engine data standard does require the vendors to do some very specific activities in order to make the data available and usable in an aggregated data set. For some vendors, these requirements may be small, but for others these requirements may be more significant. |
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| What is the process for becoming Export Engine Certified? |
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| Vendors interested in participating with the Export Engine program will need to contact the Datalys Center for the Export Engine documentation, which will include date elements and a data test file. Vendors will need to enter the test file information into their system and transmit the test data back to Datalys. The test file contains numerous situations to specifically test the vendor’s compliance with Export Engine data transmission requirements. |
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| Once the test data has been received, Datalys will evaluate the data, and if it has come across cleanly, Datalys will provide vendor certification. |
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| Once certified, vendors can then promote their certification and participation in the NCAA’s Injury Surveillance Program – not the critical decision point for athletic trainers, but nonetheless an important value-add to the vast majority of athletic trainers who support the NCAA’s injury surveillance efforts. |
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| Vendors interested in participating in the Export Engine program may become certified at any time. |
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