As the Australian Centre for Disease Control becomes operational, health systems must be ready to meet a new national standard for surveillance, interoperability, and real-time public health intelligence. 

From 1 January 2026, Australia entered a new chapter in public health with the establishment of the Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) as an independent national agency. Charged with strengthening communicable disease surveillance, pandemic preparedness, emergency management, and real-time public health intelligence, the CDC represents a decisive shift toward nationally consistent, data-driven, and interoperable health protection. 

For healthcare providers, jurisdictions, and digital health leaders, this reform is not theoretical. It requires systems that are already capable of delivering timely, standardised, facility-level intelligence, and connecting it seamlessly to national reporting and decision-making frameworks. 

At Ocean Health Systems, we see this moment as both a milestone and a validation. Multiprac Surveillance is already delivering the core capabilities Australia’s CDC model demands. 

Built for Australia’s CDC Era 

Multiprac Surveillance is a comprehensive infection prevention, control, and clinical surveillance platform designed to support healthcare organisations operating within complex, multi-facility environments. 

Its design and operational maturity strongly align with the CDC’s national priorities, including: 

• Consistent, standardised disease surveillance 
• Real-time public health intelligence 
• Seamless digital health interoperability 
• Improved preparedness and response to infectious threats 

This is not future alignment, it is existing capability. 

Stronger Surveillance. Smarter Integration. Safer Australia. 

Multiprac already delivers a modern, rules-based surveillance model across key Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) streams, including: 

• Bloodstream infections (BSI) 
• Surgical site infections (SSI) 
• Significant organisms, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threats 
• Healthcare- and community-acquired infections 

With real-time alerts, continuous incidence tracking, automated outbreak management, and trend detection, Multiprac mirrors the CDC’s focus on earlier detection, faster response, and evidence-driven public health action. 

This alignment is further reinforced by Multiprac’s strong fit with jurisdictional surveillance workflows already in use across Australia. Its facility-level HAI surveillance model, rules-based alerts, and standardised data structures reflect the direction of travel across state and national health systems as Australia moves toward more consistent, CDC-aligned surveillance practices. 

A Connected National Ecosystem: By Design 

The CDC’s vision depends on interoperable, connected systems spanning hospitals, primary care, pathology, and aged care. Multiprac was architected with this reality in mind. 

Multiprac supports: 

• HL7 PAS/ADT integrations for patient movements 
• HL7 pathology feeds for microbiology and serology 
• openEHR-based architecture for structured, semantically rich clinical data 

By leveraging openEHR alongside AU FHIR (AU Core), Multiprac provides deeper clinical and semantic context than messaging standards alone. This enables healthcare organisations to align more precisely with CDC-defined national reporting endpoints, supporting accurate aggregation, comparability, and public health intelligence at scale. 

Enterprise-Grade Analytics for National Readiness 

Transparency, timeliness, and consistency are central to the CDC’s mandate. Multiprac’s enterprise-grade analytics and reporting framework is built to support exactly that. 

Key capabilities include: 

• Automated and scheduled reporting 
• Customisable cyclic surveillance reports 
• 15+ analytic datasets across HAI and IPC domains 
• Integration with SSRS-style reporting, Power BI, and enterprise BI tools 

This ensures healthcare organisations can meet internal governance needs while contributing reliably to national surveillance and intelligence efforts. 

Mobility That Matches Modern Infection Control 

Modern surveillance doesn’t happen at a desk, and neither should the tools. 

The Multiprac mobile app enables Infection Control Practitioners (ICPs) to work in real time, at the point of care, with full online and offline capability. 

Key benefits include: 

• Bedside and on-the-go data capture during ward rounds and investigations 
• Offline data collection with automatic synchronisation 
• Real-time alerts and rule-based notifications 
• Faster initiation of investigations and interventions 
• Reduced transcription errors and improved data quality 

Used in organisations managing 30+ million patient records across more than 150 facilities, Multiprac’s mobile capability is built for scale, speed, and operational reality. 

Ready for the CDC Standard, Today 

The establishment of the Australian CDC sets a clear expectation: surveillance systems must be real-time, interoperable, and nationally aligned. 

Multiprac delivers: 

• CDC-aligned surveillance design 
• Real-time HAI intelligence 
• Robust HL7 and pathology integration 
• openEHR-enabled clinical depth 
• Enterprise-grade analytics and reporting 
• Proven scalability across large, complex health systems 

Supporting Australia’s Public Health Future 

As Australia strengthens its national public health architecture, the role of trusted, clinically grounded digital platforms becomes critical. 

Multiprac is not just a surveillance system. It is the surveillance engine behind safer care, supporting healthcare organisations to meet today’s obligations while preparing confidently for the future.