STC to Host Demonstrations of HIE Software System: Cross-Border Disease Surveillance

Public health software and services company STC will be hosting scenario-based demonstrations of their inter-jurisdictional disease surveillance system, X-Sentinel, on August 17th and 19th. This surveillance system supports disease and event case management across borders and is designed to address the sharing of information between multiple health jurisdictions (local, state, federal, international). It promotes and standardizes communication work flow and replaces slow and unreliable methods of public health information exchange. It augments existing disease reporting systems unique for each jurisdiction so there is no need to replace current systems.

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Tucson, AZ (Vocus) August 11, 2010

Public health’s effort to mitigate the impact of disease starts and stops within the population of their geographical boundaries. Unfortunately, state boundaries do not limit disease occurrences or population movement; therefore inter-jurisdictional public health software is critical to mitigating the impact of any disease occurrence or outbreak. To combat this issue, STC has developed a cross-border disease surveillance HIE system called X-Sentinel.

A recent survey of public health professionals in the Kansas and Missouri region identified fourteen main issues that must be overcome to effectively share disease cases and outbreak information across state boundaries. Former processes were labor and paper intensive increasing the likelihood of errors and delayed responses. Most notable of the issues in the region was the need for receiving real time disease surveillance reporting and outbreak event data regardless of location. Equally important was the need to transfer case information from one jurisdiction to another as data is collected from physicians, laboratories, and public health professionals serving the regional populations.

The Mid America Regional Council (MARC) recognized that an optimal approach would be to implement a disease surveillance solution that facilitated population health information exchange within the region. STC’s cross border disease surveillance system, X-Sentinel, was developed and implemented in 2009. In the first six months of 2010, this HIE solution as allowed public health professionals in the MARC region to track and manage over 1,600 cases created through lab reports and disease notifications.

For a scenario-based demonstration of the X-Sentinel system, join STC public health experts on either August 17th or 19th. Learn how it is used to facilitate border surveillance, jurisdictional communication, and case management. Learn about upcoming extensions to the system including an outbreak management component, automated electronic exchanges to state disease reporting systems, and a future vision for consumer interoperability through mobile phones. Information about STC’s X-Sentinel demonstrations can be found here: http://stchome.com/

STC, a public health and HIE corporation established in 1988, provides domain expertise and information technology solutions to address complex real world challenges in community, regional, state, and national public health programs. STC is committed to public health outcomes through the use of HIE technology with the goal of supporting worldwide disease surveillance across all peoples and borders.

For more information on how to participate in the X-Sentinel demonstrations, please contact:

Ryan Watkins
Office: 520.202.3333
Mobile: 623.363.2678

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