Emergint: Timeline

1999

October 1999: Gil Delgado incorporates Emergint Technologies, Inc. in Georgia.

2000

March 2000: Emergint receives purchase order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to build the CDC's first Laboratory Results Reporting Portal.
July 2000: Emergint receives tasking from CDC to build multiple reporting and meta-data portals.
August 2000: Jeff Tafel joins the company as Vice President of Finance and Operations.
September 2000: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from TRW to provide IT support services for the CDC Information Systems Services and Support (CISSS) contract.

2001

February 2001: Emergint receives approval from Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority for employment tax incentives to relocate headquarters to Kentucky.
March 2001: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from Computer Sciences Corporation to provide software development and deployment for the CDC's NEDSS (National Electronic Disease Surveillance System) Base System (NBS).
March 2001: University of Louisville awards Emergint a contract to build and implement the Health Research Data System to provide an enterprise research data management system for use by University faculty and staff.
March 2001: Emergint headquarters are relocated to Louisville, Kentucky from Norcross, Georgia.

2002

February 2002: Gil Delgado receives the 2002 Top TeN Entrepreneur award from Greater Louisville Inc.
September 2002: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from SAIC to provide enterprise architecture, software development, data collection, data warehousing, and enterprise repository development services for the CDC's NEDSS (National Electronic Disease Surveillance System) PAM Development Platform.
October 2002: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from Computer Sciences Corporation to build middleware services for the CDC's NEDSS that perform disease filtering and interfacing with the PHIN MS subsystem. The system determines the syndrome category and applies program specific rules to the message. The system also performs HIPAA de-identification prior to transporting the message to CDC.
October 2002: Gil Delgado, CEO, and Tim Ellis, Sr. Systems Architect, present at DIMACS Working Group meeting. Presentation included the processes, methods, challenges, barriers and possibilities for clinical data collection, integration, and normalization for use as a tool for disease surveillance, bioterrorism detection, and adverse events reporting.
November 2002: Emergint is designated an SBA 8(a) company.

2003

May 2003: Emergint teams with SAIC to implement the Emergint Data Collection and Transformation System (DCTS) as a middleware service to collect, transform, index, and store both batch non-real-time data and singleton real-time messages for the CDC's BioSense project.
October 2003: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from Northrop Grumman to provide scientific and technical resources for the CDC Information Technology Support (CITS) 2 contract.

2004

October 2004: U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awards Emergint an 8(a) STARS (Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services) contract that allows Emergint to propose on general computer programming, design, and integration acquisitions.

2005

January 2005: Emergint begins work on the Louisville Metro Electronic Health Surveillance Project (later renamed Community Surveillance). The project is a collaborative effort with the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA), Commonwealth of Kentucky's Department for Public Health (DPH), Louisville Metro Health Department (LMHD), and 5 local hospitals.
April 2005: Emergint receives the Greater Louisville Inc. High Impact Gazelle Award.
June 2005: Emergint opens an office in Atlanta Georgia.
August 2005: U.S. NIH Center for Scientific Review awards Emergint and its subcontractor, Federal Working Group (FWG), with a contract to provide grant application processing and peer review administrative support services.
August 2005: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from Computer Sciences Corporation to provide scientific and technical expertise to the new Water Security Division in the U.S. EPA's Office of Water to build WaterSentinel, a system for monitoring the nation's water supply.
August 2005: Emergint opens an office in Bethesda Maryland.
October 2005: Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government awards Emergint with a contract to implement an Electronic Syndrome Classification System that will provide automated recognition of disease conditions and classify them into syndrome categories.

2006

January 2006: Number of employees exceeds 100.
May 2006: U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awards Emergint a Schedule 70 contract that allows Emergint to propose on general computer programming, design, and integration acquisitions.
July 2006: U.S. National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) awards Emergint with the Information Systems Services contract to facilitate and promote data sharing among internal and external consumers of environmental public health information, and to provide a variety of IT and project management services.
September 2006: Emergint hires Joseph Reid, Ph.D. as Chief Technology Officer.
October 2006: U.S. Census Bureau awards Emergint and its subcontractor Federal Working Group (FWG) a contract to provide support for data collection activities for the 2010 Decennial Census and 2008 Dress Rehearsal.
October 2006: U.S. CDC National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) awards Emergint a contract to upgrade and further develop the agency's National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Messaging Subscription Service (MSS).
October 2006: U.S. National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) awards Emergint with a contract to build the Sequoia system (previously known as HazDat), a hazardous material tracking system.
November 2006: Emergint receives the Greater Louisville Inc. 2006 Top TeN Distinguished Technology Company Award.

2007

February 2007: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awards Emergint with an Indefinite Quantity Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) type contract that allows Emergint to propose on SAMHSA Data Strategy Projects.
July 2007: Emergint joins a Booz Allen Hamilton team to deliver comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end information technology services to the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) at Fort McPherson and Fort Gillem.
August 2007: U.S. National Eye Institute awards Emergint with a contract to provide management consulting, risk management, and IT operational review services.
September 2007: U.S. National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) awards Emergint with the Information System Support Services contract to provide a variety of IT and project management services.
September 2007: Emergint and Focused Management, Inc. are awarded a contract to provide document control room and mail room services to the U.S. FDA's Department of Health and Human Services.

2008

February 2008: Emergint is awarded a subcontract from Booz Allen Hamilton to provide services for the U.S. CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Indefinite Quantity Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) contract.
May 2008: U.S. CDC awards Emergint a sole source contract to provide Information Technology Consulting Services to the Information Technology Services Office (ITSO).
May 2008: Emergint is awarded a contract to assist the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity (MEDDAC) in Ft. Knox, Kentucky with designing and developing a secure SharePoint Portal. The Portal will be used by the Warrior Transition Unit (WTU) at the Ireland Community Army Hospital.
May 2008: The Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) and Emergint launch a public health disease surveillance project, Community Surveillance, for healthcare facilities in Northern Kentucky. The project uses Emergint's Data Collection and Transformation System (DCTS) software that provides infectious disease reporting.
August 2008: Dibyendu Baksi, Ph.D. presents at the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) conference. Dr. Baksi's presentation was titled "Enterprise Integration Patterns in Healthcare Messaging."
September 2008: Emergint explores options for Biomedical Informatics Computation Support at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI).
September 2008: U.S. Census Bureau awards Emergint a task order to create procedural manuals, training guides, workbooks and job aids that will be used by Census field operations during the 2010 Decennial Census.
October 2008: Emergint begins developing the first national patient registry of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, for the U.S. CDC National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR).