Sentinel vs Persivia Public Health Surveillance

Sentinel8.9Visit Persivia Public Health Surveillance8.5Visit

Higher score Sentinel #3 in Contact Tracing Software 8.9/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Sentinel

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Persivia Public Health Surveillance #5 in Contact Tracing Software 8.5/10 Pricing on request ✓ 3 of 3 features Visit Persivia

• Sentinel fits best

  Teams managing outbreak cases in a self-hosted system

• Persivia Public Health Surveillance fits best

  Public-health teams needing tracing and monitoring

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Side by side

Feature	Sentinel 8.9/10 Visit ↗	Persivia Public Health Surveillance 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.5
Ranking	#3 in Contact Tracing Software	#5 in Contact Tracing Software
Best for	Teams managing outbreak cases in a self-hosted system	Public-health teams needing tracing and monitoring
Pricing model	Free	Paid
Starting price	Free plan	Pricing on request
Free plan	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Self-hosted	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Sentinel 3/3 · Persivia Public Health Surveillance 3/3
Case management	✓	✓
Exposure tracking	✓	✓
Follow-up workflows	✓	✓
Specs
Contact notification	Not checked yet	Automated
Mobile access	Web	Web
Data residency	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Manages patient, case, contact and outbreak records in one platform Automates case definitions from lab results, symptoms and exposures Supports HL7 feeds with LOINC and SNOMED parsing	Connects case investigations with contact and exposure tracking Includes automated contact notification workflows Combines follow-up monitoring with surveillance dashboards and reporting
Cons	Current build is identified as an alpha demonstration Self-hosted deployment requires teams to manage their own environment Support is listed through email	Purchasing requires contacting Persivia Access is through the web platform Designed for mid-market and enterprise organizations
Our verdict	Sentinel is an open-source web platform for communicable-disease surveillance, outbreak management and contact tracing. Its focus is epidemiology teams that need linked patient, case, contact and outbreak records, with workflows for… Read the review →	Persivia Public Health Surveillance brings disease-case management and contact tracing into a centralized system for public health organizations. Teams can record and investigate cases, track relationships between contacts and exposures,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Sentinel — where it wins

  • Manages patient, case, contact and outbreak records in one platform
  • Automates case definitions from lab results, symptoms and exposures
  • Supports HL7 feeds with LOINC and SNOMED parsing

  Where it doesn't

  • Current build is identified as an alpha demonstration
  • Self-hosted deployment requires teams to manage their own environment
  • Support is listed through email

• Persivia Public Health Surveillance — where it wins

  • Connects case investigations with contact and exposure tracking
  • Includes automated contact notification workflows
  • Combines follow-up monitoring with surveillance dashboards and reporting

  Where it doesn't

  • Purchasing requires contacting Persivia
  • Access is through the web platform
  • Designed for mid-market and enterprise organizations

• Sentinel8.9/10 · Free plan

  Sentinel brings case, contact and outbreak workflows together for self-hosted teams.

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• Persivia Public Health Surveillance8.5/10 · Pricing on request

  A web-based system for managing cases, tracing contacts, and monitoring exposures.

  Visit PersiviaFull verdict →