SORMAS

Overview of the digital health solution

SORMAS (Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System) is an open-source mobile eHealth System that processes disease control and outbreak management procedures in addition to surveillance and early detection of outbreaks through real-time digital surveillance including peripheral health care facilities and laboratories.

P4PPP Framework - Component Area

Knowledge

Protection

Operational Language

SORMAS

Software version

1.5.1.1

Release Year

Operational language

English

Internationalisation

Do not know

License Type

Public domain

License Details

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3

Contact Details

Contact name of owner/ representative

Contact email

sormas@helmholtz-hzi.de

Current team members

Other key members

Country of origin

Germany

Project Links

https://sormasorg.helmholtz-hzi.de/

Other key partnerships types

Other key partnerships (details)

International

Nigeria

Ghana

Fiji

Germany

www.sormas.org

https://github.com/hzi-braunschweig/SORMAS

https://sormasorg.helmholtz-hzi.de/Publications.html

P4PPP Framework - Detailed Area

Surveillance

Nature of solution

SORMAS® adheres to data standards of and enhances technical and contextual interoperability with the following systems District Health Information System 2 Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Mobile Strengthening Epidemic Response System International Health Regulations Epi Info

The SORMAS is being developed on state-of-the-art development tools such as Vaadin framework, JAVA EE Server, Payara and PostgreSQL Database. The SORMAS platform consists of two major components, namely, the mobile app (android) which interacts with the Payara Server via a REST-API and a Vaadin web client application. SORMAS runs on android mobile smart devices, tablets and desktop PCs. Software lifecycle are being implemented via an agile project management cycle (SCRUM) based on multiple Design Thinking workshops with users and stakeholders and field pilot evaluations in Nigeria. Software source codes, back logs and specifications are managed and documented open access under GitHub (https://github.com/hzi-braunschweig/SORMAS-Open). An open web-version of SORMAS with virtual data at can accessed openly for test purposes at www.sormas.helmholtz-hzi.de