January, 2012 -- HMS recently entered into a three-year contract with the Alameda County Public Health Department. Alameda County is the seventh California county—the others include Fresno, Humboldt, Nevada, Sacramento, Tulare, and Ventura—to utilize EpiCenter’s community health monitoring services.

November, 2011 -- This fall, listeria food poisoning from tainted cantaloupes resulted in 29 deaths across the United States—an event that WebMD called the “deadliest listeria outbreak in U.S. history.”

October, 2011 -- When meteorologists predicted that Hurricane Irene would make a significant impact in New Jersey, the state’s Department of Health & Senior Services contacted HMS to request that a classifier be added to EpiCenter—to identify hurricane-related ER visits.

Pittsburgh, PA -- Health Monitoring Systems (HMS) announces a major expansion in the coverage of its EpiCenter service to include all 8.7 million residents of New Jersey. HMS recently entered an agreement with the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to connect every hospital in the state to the EpiCenter service, which electronically monitors community health.