Announced Monday, Deloitte has acquired the assets — including software engineers, developers, and epidemiologists — of a disease surveillance business called CasePointer. If you try to visit CasePointer.com today, you are automatically redirected to Deloitte’s announcement.
Said the press release:
End Point’s team is one of the premier implementers of EpiTrax, an open-source platform for collecting, organizing and maintaining epidemiological data. Together with Deloitte’s GovConnect™ digital assets, they will help enable public health agencies to better identify, investigate and mitigate communicable diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events, while fortifying their emergency response efforts.
End Point is the developer behind CasePointer. As part of the deal, Deloitte is getting End Point’s former chief technical officer Jon Jensen who is quoted as saying, “Since 2008, End Point’s CasePointer business has worked with open-source public health software to modernize tools, automate processes, improve the user experience, and provide better return on investment to state and local public health agencies for their disease surveillance and epidemiologic needs. We are excited to work with Deloitte’s team of professionals and serve their broad client base. Together, we expect to make an even greater impact for government health organizations.” They’re your team now, buddy.
The press release goes on to fluff Deloitte’s public health business with the usual quotes, we can skip that.
Deloitte Bolsters its Public Health Transformation Capabilities With Acquisition of End Point’s Industry-Leading Disease Surveillance Business [PR Newswire]
