Glossary

What is Data Trust Index (DTI)?

Updated September 1, 2026

The Data Trust Index (DTI) is an eight-dimensional scoring framework, developed by SuperTruth Inc., that evaluates health data records on a 0 to 100 scale. It is the authorization step for health data: per record, in the moment, the score that decides whether data can be trusted for a given use. The score travels permanently with every record, so any model, clinician, or auditor downstream can see how much the record deserves to be trusted.

DTI scores the record, not the patient. Provenance, consent, recency, and concordance are properties of a data artifact, not attributes of a person. Nothing in the score judges, rates, or follows a human being; it tells the person acting on a record how much the record itself deserves to be trusted.

The eight dimensions and their default weights are Provenance (25%), Consent (20%), Recency (15%), Quality (10%), Concordance (10%), Validation (10%), Breadth (5%), and Stability (5%). Institutions can configure the weights for a given study or compliance context; the defaults are the filed claim.

Scores map to four trust tiers: Bronze (55 to 69) is exploratory, Silver (70 to 79) is operational-grade, Gold (80 to 89) is clinical-grade, and Platinum (90 and above) is regulatory-grade.

DTI scoring is context-dependent. The same record may score differently depending on the study, the use case, and the governing compliance body, and every score is replayable: the inputs and weights that produced it are part of the record's audit trail.

The closest analogy is Visa, which decides in the moment whether a transaction can be trusted without ever holding your account. DTI is that authorization decision, made per record and per use.