Solutions for transplant hospitals
UNOS Tools
Research and data analytics
Understand practices. Improve performance. Increase transplants.
Unlock insights with UNOS Tools
A powerful suite of data and research analytics services, the UNOS Tools help transplant programs improve patient outcomes, stay ahead of regulatory requirements, and drive quality and performance improvement initiatives.
Empowering transplant hospitals with innovative tools
UNOS is dedicated to supporting the nation’s donation and transplant community. Through constant dialogue with transplant programs, we continuously develop and deliver innovative new tools that remove administrative burden and improve efficiency — so hospitals can focus on patient care.
New tools and key updates for better outcomes
We’ve launched powerful new UNOS Tools and enhanced existing ones based on user feedback to help hospitals boost performance, streamline operations and achieve better patient outcomes.
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Report: For the first time, transplant programs have access to a stand-alone report that highlights social factors affecting patient populations. This tool enables programs to analyze, compare and understand these drivers, unlocking powerful insights to improve care, promote fairness and strengthen patient advocacy.
Transplant Quality Staffing Dashboard: Developed with Intermountain Medical Center and the Transplant Quality Staffing Collaborative, this dashboard benchmarks staffing roles and responsibilities across transplant programs.
IOTA Dashboard: This tool helps participating hospitals track their progress and identify areas needing improvement related to the IOTA model.
What are the UNOS Tools?
UNOS Tools are a suite of proprietary data analytics and benchmarking products that your transplant center uses to improve quality, drive efficiency and increase transplants. Leveraging UNOS’ best-in-class data analytics and research teams, the UNOS Tools provide invaluable insights and metrics that you have come to rely on.
What are the benefits of UNOS Tools?
UNOS Tools set your transplant hospital up for success – more transplants, better patient outcomes, increased efficiencies and stronger insights. Here are a few examples:
- UNOS Tools save your hospital overhead and employee costs by providing access to cutting-edge analytics and metrics, freeing up time for your in-house analytics and quality teams to focus on other projects.
- Hospitals report increased organ acceptance and transplant volumes using the CARE tool.
- Hospitals report better identification of data quality issues and tracking of improvements using the Benchmark report.
How does UNOS decide what new tools are needed and how to improve existing tools?
UNOS Tools are developed and improved based on direct feedback from transplant hospitals’ staff. Each tool has a dedicated working group composed of diverse community collaborators across the hospital ecosystem – from administrators and quality managers to transplant coordinators and physicians – who work with UNOS staff to provide input and suggestions for enhancement.
What are the most popular UNOS Tools?
CARE Tool: Enables transplant programs to identify opportunities for broader organ acceptance without negatively impacting outcomes.
UNOS Predict: Helps you understand where your program sits relative to the metrics reviewed by the OPTN MPSC in future SRTR cohorts.
Benchmark Report: A fully customizable report offering insights into patient populations, listing practices, and transplant activities, allowing you to compare your hospital to other hospitals and transplant programs.
UNOS Staffing Survey: The only staffing survey designed for the unique staffing challenges of transplant. With nearly two-thirds of hospitals participating, the tool allows transplant administrators to benchmark against other transplant programs across the nation – a powerful tool in advocating for new positions.
Are there UNOS Tools for OPOs?
Yes. UNOS provides products for OPOs, including our Organ Utilization Tool (OUT) and Organ Tracking Service. UNOS is in the process of developing a more comprehensive offering for OPOs, similar to the products UNOS has developed for transplant hospitals.
My transplant hospital has multiple transplant programs for different organs. Does my access apply to my whole transplant hospital, or do I have to register per organ type?
Your access applies to the transplant hospital and is not limited by organ type.
I need help using one of the tools. Who can help me?
All transplant hospitals will receive invitations to bi-monthly user-group webinars. During our one-hour webinars, you will:
- Learn about new tools and enhancements to existing products.
- Hear from your colleagues across the country on how they have leveraged these products to improve their programs.
- Provide feedback to the UNOS team on what you need related to new data products and enhancements to existing tools to make you and your program more efficient and improve patient outcomes.
How do I sign up for UNOS Tools for my organization?
You have access to the UNOS Tools through participation in the voluntary UNOS fee. To sign up, contact UNOS at [email protected].
I have more questions. How can I get help?
Please reach out to [email protected].
UNOS data analytics
Performance improvement data tools
Benchmark against other transplant hospitals
Transplant Benchmark Report
Broaden organ acceptance and increase transplants
CARE tool
Monitor and benchmark activity and outcomes
Transplant Program Dashboard
Forecast trends in key outcome metrics
UNOS Predict
Monitor key indicators of program activity
Key Insights Dashboard
Powerful staffing benchmarks
UNOS Staffing Survey
Submit multiple payor forms with a single RFI
UNOS RFI
Transplant Benchmark Report
Compare. Understand. Improve.
Benchmark your data against other programs
UNOS Transplant Benchmark Report
Updated monthly
Create customized reports
The new, interactive Benchmark Report Creator allows transplant programs to create customized reports on demand. Data is now updated monthly, offering insights into patient populations, listing practices and transplant activity. Compare your data regionally, nationally, and with any two programs you choose to create professional reports perfect for executive presentations.
Care Tool
Learn what happened to the organs you turned down
UNOS CARE tool
Updated weekly
Understand your organ acceptance behavior
Identify actionable opportunities to increase organ acceptance and save more lives—without compromising outcomes—using this powerful, weekly-updated dashboard..
Get specific
- Visualize your organ acceptance for specific types of donors to transplant more organs
- Learn what happened to the organs you turned down – get transplant-specific and aggregate outcomes
- See maps to understand where your organs are coming from
Coming early 2026
The addition of predictive analytics and enhanced functionality including:
- The addition of Kaplan-Meier survival rates with extensive filtering on donor characteristics to allow comparison of specific organs accepted versus those refused and transplanted elsewhere.
- The addition of Predictive Analytics in Kidney Report
- Leverage predictive analytics to identify the offers refused by the hospital which had the highest probability of good post-transplant graft survival.
- Use predictive analytics to identify organs refused by the program where the candidate’s predicted waiting list survival was less than the predicted post-transplant outcome of the kidney.
Transplant Program Dashboard
Monitor and benchmark activity and performance
Track pre and post-transplant patient metrics
UNOS Transplant Program Dashboard
Updated weekly
Personalized interactive dashboard
This tool (updated monthly) allows you to select specific transplant hospitals as your benchmarks. Get insights into:
- Waiting list additions by various candidate characteristics
- Current waiting list demographics (diagnosis, active/inactive, medical urgency, etc.)
- Waiting list outcomes (transplant and mortality rates)
- Transplant activity including recipient demographics and donor characteristics
- Understand your post-transplant outcomes including causes of death/failure, length of stay, and evaluation of graft outcomes
- Understand where patients from each state are being transplanted
UNOS Predict
Forecast outcomes with greater accuracy
Know where you stand ahead of the PSRs
UNOS Predict
Updated monthly
Get specific
UNOS Predict helps transplant hospitals anticipate challenges, advocate for resources and drive continuous improvement in program outcomes. Driven by user feedback, recent enhancements have made this tool even stronger.
- All pre- and post-transplant metrics are now available for kidney, liver, heart and lung
- New heart offer acceptance ratios provide visibility into how a hospital’s acceptance practices compare to national expectations, helping to guide performance improvements. Similar data for kidney coming soon.
- For post-transplant survival, the new Predict 2.0 functionality lets you access patient-level data and a “what if” simulator to see the impact on forecasted results for future SRTR cohorts
As close to real time as possible
- Data points captured and publicly released by SRTR tell the data story retroactively
- UNOS Predict provides data closer to real time, allowing your program to make improvements and course correct before it’s too late
Key Insights Dashboard
Key indicators. At-a-glace understanding.
Executive level pulse check for your program
UNOS Key Insights Dashboard
Updated weekly
Big picture
Updated weekly, this interactive dashboard showcases 24 high-level indicators—carefully selected by a peer-led working group and refreshed annually to reflect evolving trends—giving you a clear view of what matters most.
Make data-supported decisions
Quickly check trends for important measures:
- Waitlist additions
- Waitlist management
- Transplants performed
- Donor characteristics
- Organ offers
- Outcomes
The newest insights
Based on extensive feedback from users, we’ve added enhancements to provide more meaningful information:
- Refreshed tooltips and graphics bring clarity and context to each metric
- New machine perfusion metrics across all organs to help programs track utilization trends
- Number of primary offers declined but transplanted at another program, giving deeper visibility into offer acceptance behavior
Staffing Survey
Participate to gain essential staffing insights
Developed by and for Transplant Administrators
Staffing Survey
Conducted anually
The UNOS Staffing Survey is the only tool of its kind tailored specifically for transplant programs. Each year, the survey collects data on full- and part-time employees in transplant positions from nearly two-thirds of all transplant hospitals. Participating programs can:
- View summary and comparison staffing data from other programs to assist with planning and hiring strategies
- Understand staffing trends and strategies by reviewing aggregate data
- Analyze results via a dashboard or export data for easy reporting
- Access an interactive dashboard to benchmark against other similar-sized programs, helping to determine staffing needs based on the number of transplants performed
- Download results directly from the dashboard
- A supplemental report helps transplant administrators quickly identify staffing deficiencies and provides digestible information that can be summarized for leadership when advocating for staffing changes
The UNOS Staffing Survey is the only tool of its kind tailored specifically for transplant programs. Each year, the survey collects data on full- and part-time employees in transplant positions from nearly two-thirds of all transplant hospitals. Participating programs can:
- View summary and comparison staffing data from other programs to assist with planning and hiring strategies
- Understand staffing trends and strategies by reviewing aggregate data
- Analyze results via a dashboard or export data for easy reporting
- Access an interactive dashboard to benchmark against other similar-sized programs, helping to determine staffing needs based on the number of transplants performed
- Download results directly from the dashboard
- A supplemental report helps transplant administrators quickly identify staffing deficiencies and provides digestible information that can be summarized for leadership when advocating for staffing changes
UNOS RFI
Payor forms simplified.
Never miss a deadline.
UNOS RFI
Released anually
Streamlined experience
The UNOS RFI simplifies annual reporting for insurance companies and networks by consolidating the required information into a single survey. This eliminates the need for multiple submissions and significantly reduces administrative burden.
- Information from previous year’s submission comes pre-filled
- Accessible directly through Secure Enterprise
- Filter forms by progress status
UNOS custom solutions
Innovation for your data needs
Have a research or data need not covered by these tools? UNOS research experts can consult with you to solve for your unique need.
Custom registries and databases
Insights on patient population trends or improved outcome measures. Learn more.
Technology consulting
Statistical modeling and research experts for domestic or international development of optimal solutions.