Digital laboratory notifications first rollout results for Sars-CoV-2 and the extension towards generic pathogen reporting

In each country, there is a set of pathogens that require the laboratories to announce the results to local authorities. The current systems based on Fax technologies are overwhelmed with the numerous results that laboratories have to communicate for SARS-CoV-2. For enabling the upgrade of the infrastructure in terms of communication technology employing security, data protection and routing of notifications towards the list of corresponding entities, a digital communication system was developed during the DEMIS SARS-CoV-2 project. In this paper, we present the design and implementation, the testbed used for development and the performance test results, as well as rollout status and the lessons learned.