Sahana Alerting Software for Real-Time Biosurveillance in India and Sri Lanka
Evaluating a real-time biosurveillance program (RTBP) is a research project that field tested the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) content standard for exchanging public health risk information. The end-to-end RTBP Information Communication Technology (ICT) system is one that digitized patient clinical data using mobile phones, detected unusual events in the dataset with spatial and spatio-temporal statistical analysis tools, and disseminated detected adverse events to health workers and health officials in targeted geographic locations. The RTBP aiming to combat disease outbreaks before reaching epidemic states, pilot tested a single input multiple output web driven alerting application for the simultaneous dissemination of SMS, Email, and Web based CAP messages. This software is integrated in to the Sahana Disaster Management bundle of free and open source software. The field testing was carried out with health departments and healthcare workers in India and Sri Lanka. The paper discusses the design and utility of the software as well as the research finding with respect to the usability of the software and the comprehensibility of the CAP message by health workers.
electronic health mobile phones epidemiology biosurveillance common alerting protocol interoperability standards India Sri Lanka
Nuwan Waidyanatha Gordon Gow Chamindu Sampath Ganesan M. Janakiraman, N. Mifan Careem Damendra Pradeeper Mahesh Kaluarachchi
LIRNEasia, 12 Balcombe Place, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada IITMs Rural Technology and Business Incubator, IITM Research Park, Chennai, India Respere Lanka (Private) Limited, 9 De Fonseka Place, Colombo 04, Sri Lanka
国际会议
2010 International Conference on Computer and Information Application(2010年计算机与信息应用国际会议 ICCIA 2010)
天津
英文
370-373
2010-12-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）