Custom Data Processing

Name

Custom Data Processing

Legal name

Custom Data Processing, Inc.

Website

https://cdpehs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Access, Sharing & Marketplace Platforms (incl. TEFCA/QHIN enablement) (HLACAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Privacy, Consent & Compliance Management (HDAEADAG), Data Replication & Change Data Capture (CDC) (HDAEACAC)

Keywords

• Public health software
• WIC EBT processing
• Electronic health records
• Environmental health inspections
• Data analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Romeoville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. WIC EBT Transaction Processing: CDP processes WIC electronic benefits transfer transactions for state WIC agencies. In 2021, CDP processed over $1.9 billion worth of WIC transactions. Revenue is derived from transaction processing fees charged to government WIC agencies.
2. Software Licensing and Subscription: CDP licenses its public health software (ezEMRx, CDPims, WIC Direct, Data Direct, CDPMobile2) to federal, state, and local public health organizations. Solutions include implementation, hosting, and ongoing support.
3. Managed Services / Hosting: CDP provides state-of-the-art data center hosting with 99.99% uptime. Hosting is offered as part of the software suite with SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant infrastructure. Clients benefit from CDP's central hosting business model as a turnkey solution.
4. WIC MIS Maintenance and Enhancement: CDP provides ongoing maintenance, enhancements, and operations support for WIC Management Information Systems (MIS) for state agency model (SAM) solutions. This is a contracted service engagement model supporting compliance with WIC program regulations.
5. Network/IT Services: CDP provides IT and network outsourcing services to public health clients, including design, installation, support, and technical assistance for hardware, software, and applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Custom Data Processing (CDP) develops and operates an integrated suite of public health software and services for federal, state, and local government agencies. Its offerings include WIC electronic benefits transfer processing (WIC Direct), a fully certified electronic health record (ezEMRx), environmental health inspection management (CDPims), data analytics (Data Direct), mobile inspection (CDPMobile2), farmers market EBT (Farm Market Direct), food prescription EBT (Healthy Food Direct), and IT/network services, all hosted on CDP-owned Tier 3 HIPAA-compliant data centers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ezEMRx: ONC-ACB fully certified complete electronic health record (EHR) built specifically for public health departments.
• WIC Direct
• CDPims
• CDPmobile2
• Data Direct
• Healthy Food Direct
• Farm Market Direct
• ENVQuickDraw

Products and services

• WIC Direct Online WIC electronic benefits transfer (EBT) processing solution serving WIC participants, retailers, and WIC state agencies. Manages benefit delivery and retail authorization in real time, with mixed basket processing, real-time authorizations, card deactivation, and prescription changes.
• ezEMRx ONC-ACB fully certified complete electronic health record (EHR) built specifically for public health. Includes workflow engine for public health clinic operations, practice management, revenue cycle management, interoperability via HIE portal (HL7, CCD/CDA, Direct messaging), and HCO data translation (LOINC, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, ICD, CPT).
• CDPims Environmental health inspection management system supporting online and offline field data collection, mobile inspections, food safety inspection, permit processing, complaint tracking, accounts receivable, and public-facing inspection reporting, with a Foodborne Illness Investigation module.
• Data Direct Data warehouse and business intelligence solution using a Tableau front end that collects and integrates data from WIC Direct, WIC MIS, ezEMRx, CDPims, Healthy Food Direct, Farm Market Direct, and SNAP, supporting reporting through line/trend graphs, bar graphs, maps, tabular data, pie charts, and bubble charts.
• CDPMobile2

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.99% average uptime for CDP's data center operations
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Yellowbrick DatacoreTechnology or Integration · 4 October 2022Custom Data Processing Inc. (CDP) selected Yellowbrick Data to manage its growing data volumes. Yellowbrick is a multi-cloud data warehouse vendor. This partnership enables CDP to leverage Yellowbrick's data warehouse infrastructure to support Data Direct and its expanding data analytics capabilities for public health agencies.
• ezEMRxcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 December 2020Custom Data Processing, Inc. (CDP) and ezEMRx, both Illinois companies, work in partnership on electronic health record software. CDP partnered with ezEMRx to release updated mass vaccination scheduling features as part of the ezEMRx EHR and practice management software. CDP is described as the only provider offering ezEMRx to public health clients.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Solutran: Solutran is a financial technology company specializing in EBT and government benefits processing, directly competing with CDP's WIC Direct EBT solution in state nutrition benefits programs.
• Patagonia Health: Patagonia Health provides EHR and practice management software specifically designed for public health departments, directly competing with CDP's ezEMRx product in the local public health EHR market.
• Azalea Health: Azalea Health offers EHR and public health software solutions to community health centers and public health agencies, providing similar functionality to CDP's ezEMRx EHR and serving overlapping customer segments.

Broad incumbents

• Conduent: Conduent is a large-scale government services and digital payments processor that operates state EBT and benefits processing programs, making it a direct competitor in the WIC EBT and government benefits processing space where CDP holds 56% market share.
• NIC (Tyler Technologies): Tyler Technologies (via its NIC subsidiary) is a major government technology and payments platform serving state agencies, including government payment processing that overlaps with CDP's WIC EBT and government benefits business.
• Maximus: Maximus is a large government services and technology firm with state health and human services contracts, comparable to CDP in serving WIC and public health agencies through government contracts and RFP-driven sales.
• Gainwell Technologies: Gainwell is a leading government healthcare technology provider serving Medicaid and public health agencies, with deep state government relationships that overlap CDP's WIC and public health agency customer base.
• FIS (Fidelity National Information Services): FIS is a major financial technology and government payments vendor that processes EBT transactions for state agencies. It serves as both a potential competitor in WIC EBT processing and a comparable scale enterprise serving government benefits programs.
• NTT Data (formerly DXC Technology state health): NTT Data is a major IT services provider with substantial state government and Medicaid/public health contracts, comparable in serving state agencies with large-scale technology and processing solutions.

Emerging players

• CureMD: CureMD provides EHR and health IT solutions with some specialty in public health workflows, representing a smaller-scale emerging competitor to CDP's ezEMRx in public health EHR markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cdpehs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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