The Injury Surveillance Program is a data collection initiative designed to track and analyze medical illnesses and injuries that result from sport participation. Since 1982, athletic trainers have collaborated with the NCAA to create the largest collegiate sports injury database in the world. Today, the NCAA Sport Science Institute partners with the Datalys Center, an independent non-profit research organization, to manage the ISP and to help inform injury prevention policies and practices in college sport.

Participation in the ISP is essential for assisting in understanding the safety and well-being of student-athletes particularly as they practice and compete in this unique environment. To help make the data submission process easier, the ISP is compatible with the following electronic medical record systems: 

• Athletic Trainer System
• CSMI Solutions SportsWare Online
• HealthyRoster
• PyraMED
• INPOWERiQ

Participation for schools with a compatible electronic medical record system requires an additional 15-20 minutes of data entry per week, per sport. Data may be submitted for as many or as few sports as is convenient, and Datalys Center staff will work with reporting schools to determine which sports are most valuable to the ISP. For schools that do not use a compatible EMR, the Datalys Center offers a free web-based system (Datalys Injury Surveillance Tool) for any school to use.

For questions or to sign up for the ISP, contact the Datalys Center at NCAAISP@datalyscenter.org or at 855-832-4222.