Epi Locator is a software application designed to help case investigation and contact tracing teams more easily find missing contact information for positive COVID-19 cases and their contacts, enabling public health teams to reach more individuals in less time. Epi Locator integrates with a case management system, enabling users to search data enrichment sources for missing contact information directly within the case management system. Users have reported that a tool like this (i.e., contact enrichment fully integrated into a case management system) is especially helpful in the context of a high-volume of cases, as seen during surges of COVID-19 cases.
Epi Locator is deployed in production for the New York State Department of Health and the New Jersey Department of Health. It is currently integrated with contact tracing systems built on CommCare from Dimagi, as well as the Thomson Reuters CLEAR API.
The development of Epi Locator is sponsored by Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies.
The source code is published here to inspire others to do similar work, but it is not expected that the code be reusable in any other settings than those for which it was written. Anyone interested in studying the code should be able to download it and run the test suite. The software is being actively developed on MacOS and Linux.
Epi Locator is open-source but not open-contribution. It was built for specific "clients", and it's being maintained for those "clients" only. Also, in order to keep Epi Locator in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept pull requests or patches from unknown persons.
Copyright (c) 2021 Ratio PBC, Inc. The code is made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 license. See also LICENSE.