2026 to early 2027
Community and sustainable development
Develop community participation and public interest to support maintenance, collaboration and sustainable development.
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Sentinel priority themes and feature roadmap
From a foundational product to sustainable, collaborative development.
2026 → 2027 → BeyondKey Development Themes
01
The event under surveillance
Integrate information and support investigation.
02
The local public health unit
Automate routine work and support the response.
03
Public health units working together
Aggregate across units without friction.
04
Sub-national and national public health
Support surveillance, analysis and research.
05
Sustainable development and public health ethics
Protect each person subject to surveillance.
V1.0.0-beta
Foundation product
The event under surveillance
The local public health unit
Public health units working together
Sub-national and national public health
Sustainable development and public health ethics
Early 2027
Release candidate
Progress the foundation product towards a release candidate.
2027 onwards
Extend the platform across the five priority themes.
The event under surveillance
- Cross-entity custom fields
- Genomic and molecular laboratory results
- Vaccination and treatment records, with related task operations
The local public health unit
- Structured entry of narrative data
- Interview and supervisor queues and management
- Workflows for day-to-day use and outbreaks
- Automated documents, email and SMS for consistent communication
- Reporting automation and parameters
- “Quick Epi”: is this an outbreak?
- Patient, notifier and aged care facility survey completion
Public health units working together
- Jurisdiction disease filtering
- Interoperability and external data integration (Themes 3–4)
- Disease-based export templates for national and hierarchical reporting
- Reporting and analysis of survey data
Sub-national and national public health
- Data modelling extracts
- Surveillance system evaluation (CDC attributes)
- HL7 refactoring
- Geography code optimisation
Sustainable development and public health ethics
- Configurable data validation rules
- Entra ID, OIDC and LDAP evaluation
- Independent security testing
- Multilingual support
- Task barriers and consent-based automated referrals (post-RC)
- Evaluate surveillance and data collection methods for marginalised or mobile populations - considering lack of traditional identifiers or system interactions
Future
Longer-term areas for exploration.
The event under surveillance
- Wastewater and vector surveillance
The local public health unit
- Visual workflow builder
Public health units working together
- Federated deployments across multiple public health units
Sub-national and national public health
Further priorities to be defined.
Sustainable development and public health ethics
Further priorities to be defined.
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Operational experience, implementation testing and technical contributions can inform how these priorities develop.