ACT school sporting events will soon introduce a new technology to allow injuries to be better recorded.

Sports Medicine Australia (SMA), in partnership with University of Canberra (UC), and supported by the ACT Government Sport & Recreation Grant Funding, will implement a portable injury surveillance record management system aimed to capture all injury data at school sporting events within the ACT.

The ACT Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Andrew Barr, said the ACT Government is pleased to be supporting the injury management system. “The Injuredata project will be a great benefit to sporting groups and participants and Canberra, and I look forward to it helping in injury prevention and injury management, and keeping our sports people on the field longer,’’ Minister Barr said.  read more