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<jats:p> 293 </jats:p><jats:p> Background: All U.S. transplant centers must report comprehensive SCT outcome data to a federal registry. The current electronic data capture method requires manual data entry of 700+ unique data elements into an internet application, FormsNet <jats:sup />(Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research). Data is routinely copied from program databases or the EMR by manual transcription, an inefficient, inaccurate and expensive process. A method was needed to allow electronic transmission of outcome data directly from these databases to the mandated SCT Outcomes Database (SCTOD). Methods: We designed an interface engine (IE) to transmit structured data through a caGRID subnet (AGNIS) directly to the SCTOD from a proprietary MDACC SCT database using a secure, auditable method. To make this method applicable to other centers, we collaborated with the NCI and others to expand the Biomedical Research Informatics Domain Group (BRIDG) standard data model to support a full set of granular data elements (>1,900) required to describe SCT outcomes. The IE was modified to transmit SCT data from the expanded BRIDG database to the SCTOD. The IE and expanded BRIDG database model will be made available to all centers without charge. In this way centers interfacing data to this new structure can transmit data to the SCTOD without transcription. Results: The BRIDG oversight committee has approved the extended model and made its structure and content publically available. The IE has been used to transmit >4,000 data forms from MDACC to the SCTOD. The full set of SCT common data elements (CDE) has been published in the Cancer Data Standards Repository of the NCI. The American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation is publishing an RFA to identify 1-3 vendors qualified to interface data from center-specific systems to the BRIDG database. Conclusions: Comprehensive and direct electronic data transmission to the SCTOD is feasible and can be done without modifying individual center’s legacy applications. The plan will make appropriate tools available to all transplant centers. This paradigm should be applicable to other areas of oncology. </jats:p>