Scheduled public health notification dispatches

Purpose

1.1. Automate the scheduled dispatch of public health notifications relating to death investigations, cause of death trends, communicable disease alerts, or case updates from medical examiner offices to stakeholders, including public health officials, emergency services, hospitals, and law enforcement.
1.2. Automates compliance with legal and regulatory standards for timely public health communication.
1.3. Enables automated scheduling, delivery tracking, and confirmation of notification receipts to ensure no lapse in critical communications.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automatedly triggered by predefined time schedules (e.g., daily/weekly/monthly).
2.2. Triggered automatically upon completion of specific case updates in the medical examiner information system.
2.3. Automated activation following update to cause-of-death categorization (e.g., infectious disease flag).
2.4. Emergency automation upon manual input for urgent or unscheduled public alerts.

Platform Variants

3.1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Automate bulk SMS dispatch using Programmable SMS API; sample: POST to /Messages with recipient group and sender credentials.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automates email notifications using Mail Send API v3; sample payload with subject, recipient list, and dynamic template data.
3.3. Microsoft Outlook 365
• Feature/Setting: Automates email scheduling with Graph API /sendMail endpoint; use automated scripts to batch notifications.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automator posts updates to targeted channels via Incoming Webhooks; sample payload with JSON message and channel.
3.5. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Automatedly sends notifications using Bot API /sendMessage method; chat_id from stakeholder group.
3.6. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: Automate messaging flow via /messages endpoint; set template for repeat alerts.
3.7. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Automate incident notifications using Events API v2 trigger endpoint; include case ID, time, and urgency level.
3.8. AWS Simple Email Service (SES)
• Feature/Setting: Automation via SendEmail API; schedule emails with recipient filters.
3.9. Google Workspace (Gmail API)
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled emails via /users.messages.send method; automatedly attach case data.
3.10. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Automates mass notifications using Messages API; configure with automated campaign scheduling.
3.11. Zoom Chat
• Feature/Setting: Automated alerts via Chat Messages API; push updates to user groups.
3.12. Cisco Webex
• Feature/Setting: Automate room notifications with /messages API; define team recipient.
3.13. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Automate case update notifications through Process Builder and Email Alert actions; map triggers to medical status changes.
3.14. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automate health notifications to channels using Incoming Webhook URLs.
3.15. FAX.PLUS
• Feature/Setting: Automate fax dispatch via REST API /send endpoint; configure documents and recipient list.
3.16. Everbridge
• Feature/Setting: Automates mass notifications using REST API /alerts; schedule templates for public health announcements.
3.17. RapidSMS
• Feature/Setting: Automated SMS broadcast with scheduled campaign features; recipient mapping.
3.18. ClickSend
• Feature/Setting: Automates SMS and email alerts using /v3/messages/send API; set up with scheduled tasks.
3.19. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending notifications to signers using Envelopes:create method, with status alerts.
3.20. Workplace by Meta
• Feature/Setting: Automator posts to groups via Graph API /group/feed endpoint; automate based on incident tags.
3.21. Signal Messenger
• Feature/Setting: Automates message push using community-admin integration tools; set reminders.
3.22. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Automated trigger notifications using Ticket Events Automation and Notify Target actions.
3.23. IBM Watson Assistant
• Feature/Setting: Automatically sends notification responses via Integration APIs, based on public health workflow triggers.
3.24. SMSGlobal
• Feature/Setting: Automated notifications via REST SMS API; set periodic message scheduling and group recipients.

Benefits

4.1. Ensures public health notifications are always timely, accurate, and distributed automatically.
4.2. Reduces risk of missed or delayed stakeholder communication by automating outreach.
4.3. Automates compliance with government and legal communication requirements.
4.4. Frees staff resources for other automatable tasks by eliminating repetitive notifications.
4.5. Provides full automation audit trails for traceability and proof of dispatch.
4.6. Scales automated notification management across multiple government and health entities.