Plover: A Novel Laboratory Informatics System for BC-Wide COVID-19 Public Health Response

RESULTS: The Public Health Lab at BCCDC was ordered by PHO to aggregate, report, and make available BC-wide COVID-19 virus testing in early 2020. The "Plover" system was deploy for production use within a month of BC's first COVID case, and now supports more than 130 active users at the PHL and across BC and Yukon. It receives COVID-19 virus testing data for all COVID-19 testing in BC, including all hospital and public health labs, private labs, and Point of Care testing, and generates automatic case notifications within 1 hour of test received. Use of a robust, widely-used open-source software framework (Django) allowed for rapid, continuous development,deployed on IMITS secure environment.

BC CDC Presenters

10/19/2021 7:20:00 PM