DCO Central

DCO Central is the World Anti-Doping Agency’s digital sample collection app.

DCO Central is the World Anti-Doping Agency’s new doping control application. DCO Central provides Sample Collection Agencies (SCAs) and Doping Control Officers (DCOs) with an online and offline solution for secure and fast doping control data processing. DCO Central leverages the Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS) to pre-populate the Doping Control Form with planned test and athlete profile information. All data is uploaded back to ADAMS, which reduces manual data entry and improves data integrity and accuracy. The app has real-time access to athlete’s whereabouts information to reduce the chances of an unsuccessful test attempt. DCO Central was developed with athletes in mind in order to promote and protect their health and the integrity of sport.

DCO Central features include:

Improved Doping Control Experience:

- Complete sample process: Athlete notification, Doping Control Forms, Chain of Custodies, Unsuccessful attempts, Athlete refusals, DCO Report

- Faster doping control procedure with pre-populated athlete data from ADAMS

- Encrypted PDF version of the Doping Control Form sent to the athlete

- Anonymous Doping Control Form sent to lab for analysis

- Simultaneous translation to protect athlete’s rights when doping control is conducted in another language

- Secure digital transfer of athlete’s personal data

- DCO has real-time access to athlete’s whereabouts information to reduce the chances of an unsuccessful test attempt

Usability

- Available online and offline

- Paperless

- Bilingual athlete-facing interface

- Electronic signature

- Sample code scanning

- Secure connection with ADAMS including automatic upload for the testing outcomes