Available Software

There are many health agencies, academic institutions and vendors who have developed products and services for disease surveillance. These links are not an endorsement from ISDS of these systems or vendors, but rather a directory of those who have requested that their information be shared. No attempt has been made to screen these systems, vendors or their products.  If you would like to share your product with the users of this web page, please contact us and include the URL, a brief text description and a contact email.

More Information About Open Source Software in Public Health

• A Quick Survey of Open Source Software for PH Organizations, a paper by Massimo Mirabito, MBA (US CDC) and Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, 2007
• Open Source Development for Public Health:  A Primer with Examples of Existing Enterprise Ready Open Source Applications, by Stuart Turner, DVM, MS for the 2006 Public Health Information Network Conference
• List of open-source healthcare software
• Open Source Software for Public Health

Open-Source/Free Software (downloadable)

• SaTScan
• RODS
• Mergence Consulting (HMS)
• EpiCenter (HMS)
• Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS)
• TriSano^® is an open source, highly configurable, comprehensive surveillance and outbreak management application for global public health and healthcare.  It allows local, state, federal and international agencies to identify, investigate, and mitigate communicable and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events.
• InSTEDD Riff - "an interactive decision support environment that combines the power of virtual teams of human experts and advanced analytic, machine-learning, and visualization services to allow its users to collaborate around streams of information to detect, characterize, and respond sooner to emerging events."  Note:  This project is currently in closed beta testing.
  • To learn more, view the presentation, "Riff:  A Social Network and Collaborative Platform for Public Health Disease Surveillance," by Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS.
• Surveillance - An R package containing statistical methods for temporal and spatio-temporal outbreak detection

Commercial Software

Syndromic Surveillance

• SYRIS (SYndrome Reporting Information System, ARES Corporation) - Clinician-driven syndromic surveillance system that covers humans and animals (livestock, wildlife, companion, exotic)

• EmergisoftED - Emergency Department Information Systems, including ED automation and real-time syndromic surveillance management reporting
• FirstWatch - real-time early warning system (syndromic/biosurveillance)
• GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) - online infectious disease diagnostic tool (including bioterrorism) that uses Bayesian analysis
• Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd (Public Health and Homeland Security Services) - offers an automated real-time biosurveillance monitoring and tracking system
• BDProtect Syndromic Surveillance (formerly RedBat) - multi-use, automated syndromic surveillance system
• Early Warning Detection System (Zhang methodology) - Scientific Technologies Corporation's patented and innovative approach to identifying early indications of health events.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• ESRI - see an example of the application of GIS software for syndromic surveillance in "Early Detection to Response and Infectious Disease"

General Disease Surveillance

• Disease Surveillance Management System - Scientific Technologies Corporation's system integrates lab reports, disease reports and geocoding

•  CSI TriSano^® Enterprise Edition - Collaborative Software Initiative has developed and delivered a family of disease surveillance and outbreak management software, the TriSano^® family.  The commercial version is a highly configurable, comprehensive surveillance and outbreak management application for global public health and healthcare. It allows local, state, federal and international agencies to identify, investigate, and mitigate communicable and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events. CSI TriSano^® supports secure data exchange with laboratories, clinicians, hospitals, vital records, immunization registries, and health information exchanges as well as offers sophisticated analysis, visualization, and reporting of contact and case information. CSI TriSano^® increases overall effectiveness in preventing morbidity and mortality through decreased reporting time, automated assignment and routing processes, easy form-creation tools, trend analysis, detection of anomalies, and quality assurance.

Animal Surveillance

• Animal Disease Surveillance - Scientific Technologies Corporation's system integrates animal and communicable disease reports, syndromic and sentinel surveillance efforts, and environmental health