SORMAS

Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS)

The Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System is an open source software for early detection of infections and management of epidemic control. SORMAS is now in use in numerous countries on several continents and has been an essential part in managing large epidemics of Lassa fever, monkey pox, meningitis, measles and the COVID 19 pandemic.

In many countries, laboratories, hospitals, medical offices, airport physicians, ministries and public health departments work together via SORMAS. For more than 40 diseases, SORMAS enables digital data exchange in real time, even horizontally across national or regional borders SORMAS is one of the world's leading systems in this field.

Approach

SORMAS is a process management software that allows users to document and analyze outbreaks of infectious diseases and coordinate measures to prevent their spread. It stores information for affected persons, suspected and confirmed cases and contacts and allows users to connect this data to get the "big picture". Based on this information staff can decide upon specific measures and create tasks for different people or teams working directly with the patients. Due to the open interfaces, it can also be connected to external systems which allows for automatic data entry and processing.

The primary users of SORMAS are health professionals from a multitude of disciplines; Federal Institutions, healthcare workers, hospitals, doctors and cand contact tracing specialists.

Implementations

SORMAS is currently in use in numerous countries on several continents and is actively being used to combat the outbreak of infectious diseases. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic multiple countries decided to implement SORMAS for their contact tracing and process management.

Resources

• Website: www.sormas.org
• Documentation: https://github.com/hzi-braunschweig/SORMAS-Project
• Articles:
  • https://publichealth.jmir.org/2021/12/e30106
  • https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/2/19-1139_article
  • https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/30/Supplement_5/ckaa166.1347/5915340?login=false
  • https://publichealth.jmir.org/2018/4/e68/
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327270609_User_Evaluation_Indicates_High_Quality_of_the_Surveillance_Outbreak_Response_Management_and_Analysis_System_SORMAS_After_Field_Deployment_in_Nigeria_in_2015_and_2018"