What is ITDX? A free data standard that provides 100% harmonization with ACS clinical requirements. For 2019, ITDX is included in all Windows and web-based trauma registry products of leading hospital trauma registry vendors Clinical Data Management (CDM), Digital Innovation (DI), and Lancet Technology.
Benefits to Hospitals – The ITDX allows registrars to maintain current data entry practices for fields such as Height and Weight, Physical ED and Hospital Discharge Date/Time, Complications, and Comorbidities. Registrars need only complete a small number of additional “helper fields” that are carefully designed to provide a 100% lossless conversion for ACS TQIP® and NTDB data submission. This is the best of all words—efficient data entry practices designed to meet national and state compliance initiatives.
Benefits to Regions and Health Systems – The ITDX establishes a “common language” for regional trauma care systems and health care systems that can be supported by all member facilities, going above and beyond national data standard definitions and providing efficient and well-designed clinical and technical data definitions for a higher degree of analysis, system-wide performance improvement, and resource utilization/performance.
Benefits to States – Because the ITDX is already inside the majority of trauma registry applications that upload data to state systems, a state’s adoption of ITDX eliminates multiple mapping and implementation steps for the state, saving both time and money. The integration of ITDX as the foundation for a state data dictionary ensures the state will remain 100% harmonized with ACS clinical definitions without creating a dependency on ACS technical standards. Moreover, the ITDX provides extensions so state databases can retain longitudinal data consistency across years and avoid masking data points.
ITDX is advancing the technical foundation for the trauma industry through this layered model, providing a pathway to efficiently implement state, regional, and system data collection solutions. ITDX will always remain 100% harmonized with NTDS requirements, but can easily grow beyond due to the flexibility of the ITDX standard. This, by far, is the most exciting influence that ITDX has to offer.