Laboratory and Testing OperationsPurpose
1.2. Automates secure and timely reporting of test results to comply with public health regulations.
1.3. Automating standardized data submission improves transparency and outbreak monitoring.
1.4. Reduces human error and latency in lab-to-government information flow.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automate scheduled triggers: hourly, daily, or batch-based automated uploads.
2.3. Automate event-based triggers—flag for reporting by specific test result, threshold, or case.
2.4. Automated updates on failed uploads or exceptions.
Platform Variants
3.1. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘HTTP’ with government database API endpoint, configure JSON payload for automated upload.
3.2. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automator ‘Webhooks by Zapier’ to automate data export from LIS and automatedly upload to REST API.
3.3. Mulesoft
• Feature/Setting: Automate DataWeave for automated transformation and ‘HTTP Connector’ for secure data push to governmental endpoint.
3.4. Boomi
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘Process Route Shape’ with API connector for scheduled batch uploads.
3.5. Integromat (Make)
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘HTTP Module’ for automated multi-step upload workflow from LIS to government portal.
3.6. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Automate function triggers from S3/LIS uploads and automated API calls to governmental data lakes.
3.7. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Automate cloud function on file publish event to automatedly call public API or SFTP for uploads.
3.8. Apache NiFi
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘InvokeHTTP’ and ‘PutSFTP’ processors in flow for automated compliance uploads.
3.9. Talend
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘tRESTClient’ for automated API calls and automate logging exceptions for review.
3.10. UiPath
• Feature/Setting: Automate robot to scrape LIS, transform data, and automatedly upload via API/SFTP.
3.11. Workato
• Feature/Setting: Automate trigger recipe on LIS row addition and automate governmental API POST.
3.12. IBM App Connect
• Feature/Setting: Automate API request node with custom mapping and credential management.
3.13. Oracle Integration Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘REST Adapter’ for pre-configured report payload to governmental systems.
3.14. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘Data Uploader’ workflow to push lab report rows to API/SFTP.
3.15. Informatica Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automate task to extract-filter-transform-upload lab data to government endpoints.
3.16. Blue Prism
• Feature/Setting: Automate process using ‘Web API’ object with scheduled automated batch upload routine.
3.17. Jitterbit
• Feature/Setting: Automate ‘HTTP Endpoint’ connections for automate report submission.
3.18. Tray.io
• Feature/Setting: Automate trigger from LIS source, transform, and automate governmental data push.
3.19. SnapLogic
• Feature/Setting: Automate Snap ‘REST Post’ for serialized uploads to target endpoint.
3.20. Pipedream
• Feature/Setting: Automate workflow when LIS report published, automated call to government health API.
3.21. Postman Monitors
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled monitor to validate and automatedly upload reports using scripts.
3.22. Elastic.io
• Feature/Setting: Automate integration flow from CSV/XML output to API or SFTP upload.
Benefits
4.2. Automation reduces administrative workload, enabling staff to focus on core health surveillance.
4.3. Automator enhances data accuracy with automated transformations and validations.
4.4. Automate secure uploads (TLS/SFTP/HTTPS), safeguarding sensitive health data.
4.5. Automated error notifications ensure prompt correction and minimal disruption in regulatory submissions.
4.6. Automating aggregation and reporting supports faster outbreak detection and response.
4.7. Automation provides verifiable logging and audit trails for every uploaded record.