Manifest Medex to Support California Public Health Reporting System

Aug. 17, 2022

Nonprofit health data network to collect and report lab results for new Surveillance and Public Health Information Reporting and Exchange (SaPHIRE)

David Raths

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has chosen health data network Manifest Medex to implement a solution to securely ingest and process electronic lab results for CDPH’s new Surveillance and Public Health Information Reporting and Exchange (SaPHIRE).

Launched in 2020, SaPHIRE, formerly known as California COVID-19 Reporting System, was developed to collect, track, and report COVID-19 lab results, supplementing CalREDIE, California’s disease registry system. More than 400 independent, hospital, and outpatient labs and other entities submit lab results directly to SaPHIRE.

This spring, CDPH solicited a competitive bid and awarded nonprofit Manifest MedEx a contract to build a health data solution to tackle SaPHIRE’s high-volume challenges and normalize lab data to ensure usability, scalability, and extensibility to support additional data sources and data types in the system. The contract is for three years with options to extend for an additional two years.

Manifest MedEx partnered with Diameter Health and Lyniate to create a best-of-breed solution for data processing, data normalization, and a range of continuous reporting on data quality and volume metrics. The solution is hosted in its HITRUST-certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and routes processed lab data directly to CDPH for use in the Department’s downstream systems.

Migration of existing data submitters into the new system is underway and expected to be completed by the end of the year.

“We are honored to deliver a world-class solution to the California Department of Public Health, and look forward to supporting the Department with continuous high-quality data that will inform their efforts to keep Californians safe now and into the future,” said Erica Galvez, CEO of Manifest MedEx, in a statement.

Manifest MedEx combines and delivers health information for 32 million Californians across more than 125 hospitals, 12 health plans, and 1,500 ambulatory providers throughout the state.