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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.
Everything you need to know about UNOS Tools
UNOS is deeply committed to serving our nation’s donation and transplant community. Through constant dialogue with transplant hospitals, we are continually providing new and improved products that make the work of donation and transplant more efficient and effective.
We’re excited to announce, after months of development, the release of our new and improved UNOS Tools – the data analytics and benchmarking products you’ve grown to rely on to improve your hospitals’ performance, efficiency and patient outcomes. Starting September 2025, we’ll roll out weekly improvements to our tools – and we’ll introduce a few new ones, too.
Brand new tools releasing over the next several months
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Report: For the first time, transplant programs will gain access to a dedicated stand-alone report—modeled after the widely used Benchmark report—that brings critical visibility to the social drivers of health impacting their patient populations. This resource empowers programs to explore, compare, and understand these factors in depth, unlocking powerful insights to strengthen care, drive equity, and advocate more effectively for patients.
Transplant Quality Staffing Dashboard: This year, UNOS worked with Intermountain Medical Center and the Transplant Quality Staffing Collaborative to create the 2025 Transplant Quality Staffing Survey. The survey is designed to capture roles and responsibilities found in Transplant Quality Departments. Now it is time to see the results! In October, participating transplant hospitals will be able to review the results and benchmark against other hospitals.
IOTA Dashboard: A tool allowing participating hospitals to track their progress and identify areas needing improvement related to the IOTA model. An initial dashboard released at the end of October, with new metrics and functionality added frequently over subsequent months based on user needs and feedback.
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.
Why is UNOS introducing new tools and enhancements of current tools now?
UNOS is constantly collecting feedback about how we can provide the products you need. We listen to the needs of busy transplant program staff and have delivered new tools and enhancements to help them spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on improving patient care. This set of upgrades represents our commitment to introduce improvements to your organization as soon as they’re ready.
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?
Join us for our bi-monthly user group webinars. Our next webinar is at 3:30 p.m. September 25, 2025. If you’d like to participate, please email [email protected]. During our one-hour webinars, you will:
Please email [email protected] or join our bi-monthly user group webinars. Our next webinar is at 3:30 p.m. EST September 25, 2025. If you’d like to participate, please email [email protected]. 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
Standard report
UNOS provides transplant hospitals with Benchmark Reports, offering insights into patient populations, listing practices, and transplant activity. Compare your data regionally, nationally, and with similarly sized programs.
Branded report
Complete your report with a custom look—include your corporate colors in addition to the standard UNOS branding. The result? A professional-looking document perfect for executive presentations.
Branded report
Complete your report with a custom look—include your corporate colors in addition to the standard UNOS branding. The result? A professional-looking document perfect for executive presentations.
Coming in September
The standard quarterly delivery of this report will be replaced with a benchmark report generator — an application allowing transplant programs to generate these same reports on demand, customizing the age groups included (adult, pediatric, or combined), metrics provided, and choose one or all of the supplemental chapters in each report. There is no limit on the number of reports that can be generated for a single program, and with data updated monthly rather than quarterly. The reports have the same look and feel you love, but are now completely customizable. Future enhancements will add additional metrics and chapters with more data.
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 monthly
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 program trends and take action
Know where you stand ahead of the PSRs
UNOS Predict
Updated monthly
Get specific
- Users can customize the dashboard using filter selections for organ types, outcomes, donor type, and age groups
- The dashboard displays observed and expected rates, hazard ratios, and red and yellow zone thresholds for performance monitoring
Track and predict program trends
- Proactively track your risk-adjusted outcomes for future program-specific report (PSR) cohorts with this dynamic, monthly-updated dashboard—empowering you to stay ahead of trends and drive continuous improvement
- Use these metrics to implement improvement plans in advance of future PSRs and avoid getting flagged by the MPSC
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
Releasing over the next few months
- The remainder of pre-transplant mortality metrics released.
- Offer acceptance ratios added for heart and kidney
You asked, we listened
Predict 2.0 will include access to the patient-level data used in the metrics and allow the user to run “what if” scenarios to see the impact on their forecasted results for future SRTR cohorts.
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
Coming in December
A working group of super users of the dashboard spent multiple meetings reviewing the existing dashboard and identified new metrics to save time for quality teams in tracking key data for their programs. Some of the additions include:
- Updates to tooltips and graphics to provide more information at your fingertips.
- New metrics for all organs related to the use of machine perfusion.
- The number of primary offers received but declined and wound up being used elsewhere
Staffing Survey
Leverage the power of your most valuable asset-your staff.
Developed by and for Transplant Administrators
Staffing Survey
Conducted anually
Gain essential insights by participating
The UNOS Staffing Survey is the only tool of its kind tailored specifically for transplant programs. Participating allows you to:
- View summary and comparison staffing data from other programs to assist with your planning and hiring strategies
- Understand staffing trends and strategies by reviewing aggregate data
- Analyze results via a dashboard or export data for easy reporting
Gain essential insights by participating
The UNOS Staffing Survey is the only tool of its kind tailored specifically for transplant programs. Participating allows you to:
- View summary and comparison staffing data from other programs to assist with your planning and hiring strategies
- Understand staffing trends and strategies by reviewing aggregate data
- Analyze results via a dashboard or export data for easy reporting
Coming in September
2024 Results Dashboard
Now with an updated look and feel to improve ease of use, the ability to limit comparison groups to hospitals with similar organ program types, and new functionality for downloading results directly from the dashboard.
New supplemental report
A brand-new supplemental report to summarize survey results available later in September. Based on feedback we received in May during the annual UNOS-produced Transplant Management Forum and our March webinar, we have developed this additional report to summarize results to help transplant administrators to quickly identify any deficiencies in staffing, including any roles staffed in the 10th percentile or lower among programs of a similar volume. The goal of the report is to provide another layer of context around program staffing and to provide 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
Share your information with multiple payors through a single data collection tool.
- 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.