Epihack Sri Lanka: development of a mobile surveillance tool for dengue fever

Autor: Vajira Sampath Rathnayake, Janelle Shaina Ng, Chitra Panchapakesan, Adam W. Crawley, May O. Lwin, Jerrald Lau, Prasad Wimalaratne, Kasun Horathalge, Karthikayen Jayasundar, Anita Sheldenkar
Přispěvatelé: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth
Asia
020205 medical informatics
Digital surveillance
Health Informatics
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
Health informatics
Dengue fever
Dengue
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
parasitic diseases
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
medicine
Humans
Civic engagement
Mobile technology
Medical Informatics Applications
030212 general & internal medicine
Health communication
Disease burden
health care economics and organizations
Sri Lanka
business.industry
Health Policy
Public health
Communication [Social sciences]
social sciences
medicine.disease
Computer Science Applications
Analytics
Epidemiological Monitoring
lcsh:R858-859.7
Business
Digital Surveillance
Software
EpiHack
Zdroj: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019)
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-019-0829-5
Popis: Background: Dengue is a serious problem around the globe, with 3.9 billion people at risk of the disease. Sri Lanka has recently seen unprecedented rates of dengue with 4.3 times more cases than during the same period over the previous six years. The paper discusses the development of an integrated health systems framework, aided by mobile technology, to combat and contain dengue via a health hackathon in Sri Lanka. Results: The framework addresses the key functions of surveillance, health communication and civic engagement through innovations including digitisation of hospital forms; digital aid to Public Health Inspectors (PHIs); data consolidation and analytics; education for construction workers, GPs, and schools; and educating the general public. Conclusions: We present the impact of the disease burden in tropical countries, such as Sri Lanka, current technological solutions, and the process of developing the mobile application modules developed via the health hackathon. Published version
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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