Sentinel - Disease Surveillance System
Sentinel, STC’s disease surveillance and management system, is a web-based application designed to support state and local communicable disease reporting activities. The application is designed to be an integral component of a statewide disease, bioterrorism, and emergency preparedness system.
Based on the CDC PHIN standards and architectures and conforming to HIPAA privacy and security guidelines, Sentinel implements the CDC Logical Data Model and is capable of electronic data entry, data transformation, and statistical reporting. It provides the infrastructure to support disease reporting, supplemental data collection/reporting, electronic laboratory reporting, master patient indexing, user/roles management, code management, and HL7 messaging. Sentinel also serves as a framework for the future condition-specific Program Area Modules (PAMs) such as TB PAM.
Sentinel provides the following key functionalities that are core to the product:
- Investigation and Case Management
- Case Assignment
- Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR)
- Alerts / Notifications
- Collection, Collation, and Storing of Supplemental Data
- NETSS Report Generation
- PHIN Case Notification Messages
- Patient De-duplication
- Case De-duplication
- Outbreak Management System (OMS) Integration
- Spatial Visualization
- Reporting, including Administrative Report, Disease by Demographics Report, Disease Historical Report, and EPI Curve Report
- User Management