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Below is a list of some of the main new features that we have incorporated in WHONET 2023.

For a more detailed list of modifications for every major and minor release, you can view the Release notes.

• WHONET 2023 now includes updated clinical breakpoints for CLSI and EUCAST. We have also introduced a new feature to notify you of annual breakpoint updates, as well as any time we make corrections which require you to update your laboratory's configuration. This feature will check your configuration each time you download a new version from our website.
• We have added the exports of the new WHO GLASS 2.0 module for AMR reporting (GLASS-AMR). We will integrate the GLASS 2.0 modules for Gonorrhea (GLASS-EGASP) and Candidemia (GLASS-FUNGI) when they are officially published by WHO.
• We have added new supported formats for BacLink conversions, including Excel, ALIS (Uganda), BLIS (Africa), FAO InFARM, SENAITE, and SILAB.
• New Epidemiology and Data Quality Word reports. These are automated summary reports in Microsoft Word with text, tables, and graphs covering many aspects of patient and sample demographics, organism and antibiotic results, outbreak detection, and data quality measures. The epidemiology report also includes statistics on the WHO Critical Antibiotic Resistance List, WHO GLASS, and the UN Sustainable Development Goal AMR indicators. You can find examples of these reports here:
  • Epidemiology report
  • Test practices and quality report
• New features for improved statistical detection of possible community and hospital outbreaks and new collaborations for linking routine phenotypes with genotypes. You can learn more about our research activities through PubMed for Outbreak detection and Linking Resistance Phenotypes with Genotypes.
• Automatic configuration of resistance profiles. The “Resistance profile” analysis for tracking multidrug-resistant organisms is one of WHONET’s most valuable but underutilized analyses for recognizing emerging resistance threats, including novel strains and possible outbreaks. We have created a new option for “automatic resistance profile configuration” based on your existing data files so that WHONET can determine the sets of antimicrobials that you routinely test.
• New WHONET Interpretation Engine for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Results. New organism, antibiotic, and breakpoints tables in WHONET that can also be used developers of other laboratory information systems for the convenient and reliable implementation and maintenance of test interpretations from disk diffusion zone diameters and MIC values. We view this as a long-term shared effort in collaboration with Doctors Without Borders, Wellcome, EUCAST, and others. For more information, please contact us at help@whonet.org.