How is TriSano® pronounced and what does it mean?
tri-SAH-no. Tri is a prefix meaning three. Tri refers to the cube. Tri represents the collaboration between local, state and federal entities. It depicts the primary disciplines of public health: epidemiology, informatics, and health services. Tri also refers to the epidemiological triad of people, place, and time. Sano is an adjective meaning "promoting good health".
Who is Collaborative Software Initiative?
CSI is the sponsoring corporation of TriSano, offering professionally developed enterprise software of compelling value. Coupled with the TriSano Community and Collaborative Software Foundation, CSI ensures viability by sustaining, enhancing , maintaining and supporting TriSano.
What is the Collaborative Software Foundation?
The Collaborative Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization. Specifically, the Foundation is the holder of intellectual property associated with the TriSano project. The Collaborative Software Foundation provides users of TriSano the assurance the source code will always be available.
What is the TriSano Community?
It is a growing community of public health experts and developers who share their efforts and expertise to improve TriSano. They are passionate about making a difference in protecting and promoting the health of people in local communities and around the world.
What is the AGPLv3 and why is it the license for TriSano Community Edition?
The Affero General Public License (AGPL) is a modified version of the open source license known as GNU GPL version 3. It has all the rights and benefits of the GPLv3 as well as one added requirement: if you run the licensed program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the program that it's running. If what's running there is your modified version of the program, the server's users must get the source code as you modified it. It ensures that further enhancements must be released under AGPLv3.
What makes TriSano unique?
TriSano meets the needs of public health experts across programs and levels of government for case management, outbreak management, surveillance, analytics and reporting. Public health experts envisioned the product and work in partnership with developers to build and enhance the product.
What makes this an enterprise software product?
Trisano includes public health and enterprise software features. TriSano is released as both a freely downloadable Community Edition and a low cost Enterprise Edition. TriSano Community Edition is released under an open source license. CSI offers additional fee-based options such as enterprise support for TriSano Community Edition. TriSano Enterprise Edition, an enterprise-class software solution, is available through a low cost annual subscription that includes a commercial source product, enterprise features, and enterprise support.
How long has TriSano been around?
TriSano development began in late 2007. The open source project was released in 2008, with the first customer in production of TriSano Enterprise Edition in January 2009.
Can a local health department use TriSano or just a state health department?
Yes, TriSano was developed to meet the needs of local health departments for case, contact and outbreak management. TriSano also includes features to help you report surveillance information to your state health department.
Can I use TriSano for STD, HIV and TB case management?
Absolutely. TriSano implementations have replaced STD/MIS and TIMS. Its case management can be used for general communicable diseases or any condition that you would like to support. The flexible questionnaire tools, contact tracing, encounters, task support and security options are just a few of the features of TriSano that make this possible.
TriSano security has been enhanced to support HIV, AIDS and any other "sensitive" diseases where access needs to be controlled. Access to detailed information on events related to these diseases can be restricted, supporting the confidential process involved in case investigation.
Why should I use TriSano instead of NBS?
TriSano is the next-generation of public health applications. It supports all levels of government, from a small county to a federal agency, providing the case investigation and management, contact management, and outbreak management needs at the local level, and the surveillance and analytical needs at both the local and state levels, while NBS provides only surveillance capabilities.
If I use TriSano locally, can I get my data into the my state's NBS?
Yes. Case information from TriSano can be exported for consumption by other surveillance and case management systems including the NEDSS Base System (NBS). An XML-based export from TriSano makes this capability easily extensible to other systems that provide a defined import interface. This capability allows a local health district to implement TriSano to more effectively meet their needs for case, contact and outbreak management while still being able to report to their state health department.
Who else is using TriSano?
TriSano Community Edition has been downloaded hundreds of times. For example, TriSano Community Edition has been deployed at the Southern Nevada Health District to protect its 1.7 million residents and 40 million visitors. TriSano Enterprise Edition has been deployed at the State of Utah, its 29 counties and 12 local health departments to protect Utah's 2.8 million citizens.
Can I develop ad hoc questionnaires in TriSano?
One of the many strengths of TriSano are the flexible questionnaire tools, the Core Customizer and Form Builder. These tools allow you to easily develop ad hoc questionnaires without vendor or IT involvement. Almost 200 forms have been contributed by current TriSano customers and can be downloaded and used as is, or modified for your use.
Does TriSano support alerts?
Yes. Alert subscriptions can be created in TriSano for several occurrences, including:
- Newly created cases
- New lab results
- Cases routed to a jurisdiction
Once created, the alerts generated can be sent to one or many TriSano users with the alert information being sent as an email or can reside in an Alert Event table on the user's dashboard.
What reporting tools does TriSano provide?
The TriSano data warehouse provides end-user query, reporting and OLAP capabilities against information extracted from the TriSano transaction system. Data is extracted, including disease specific information created using the Form Builder, at user-defined intervals, transformed for ease of access, and loaded into the data warehouse. With TriSano's AVR capabilities, epidemiologists, informaticists and other public health officials can perform state-of-the-art analysis and research. TriSano includes the following advanced AVR features:
- Web-based Reporting
- Rich reporting capability to produce reports, charts and graphs
- Analyzer for multidimensional analysis support
- Dashboards for key performance indicators
Members of the TriSano community are currently creating standard reports for use with TriSano. These reports will be made available to all TriSano users.
Can TriSano accept and use Electronic Lab Reports?
Yes. TriSano provides Electronic Lab Reporting support. Lab reports in HL7 2.3.1 or 2.5.1 format are first viewed in a staging area. The user can either update an existing event with the lab results, create a new event with the lab results, or discard the lab results. In addition, the system supports the management of LOINC codes, organisms and test types for laboratory and clinical observations and tests. These Electronic Lab Reporting capabilities provide timely access to data so public health officials can take quicker coordinated action.
Does TriSano support meaningful use?
Yes, with the included HL7 2.5.1 support, TriSano helps public health agencies, working with public and private hospitals and laboratories to meet the meaningful use standard for the electronic submission of lab results to public health.
How does TriSano interoperate with other systems? And how can I easily extract my data?
TriSano provides several methods for interoperating with other systems. For import, TriSano provides a Web API, as well as HL7 2.3.1 and 2.5.1 support for electronic laboratory reports. For export, in addition to the Web API, TriSano provides export capabilities in CSV and XML formats. You can export a single case, or a subset of cases in CSV format. Both core data and form data can be exported. Using the reporting tools provided, you can export the results of a query in CSV, Excel, or PDF format.
Can TriSano work in other countries?
Yes, TriSano has been developed, architected and globalized to support multiple languages in a single TriSano system. As a proof point, we have translated TriSano to American Spanish.
Will TriSano run in a a Microsoft® environment?
Yes, TriSano can run as a virtual machine in a Microsoft® environment.