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

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 syste...

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Published in:BMC medical informatics and decision making 2019-06, Vol.19 (1), p.111-111, Article 111
Main Authors: Lwin, May O, Sheldenkar, Anita, Panchapakesan, Chitra, Ng, Janelle Shaina, Lau, Jerrald, Jayasundar, Karthikayen, Horathalge, Kasun, Rathnayake, Vajira Sampath, Crawley, Adam W, Wimalaratne, Prasad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytics
Applications programs
Asia
Cellular telephones
Communication
Construction industry
Construction workers
Control
Crowdsourcing
Dengue
Dengue - epidemiology
Dengue fever
Development and progression
Digital surveillance
Digitization
Education
Epidemiological Monitoring
EpiHack
Fever
Global positioning systems
GPS
Health Communication
Health informatics
Health risks
Humans
Innovations
Intelligence gathering
Mapping
Mathematical analysis
Medical communication
Medical Informatics Applications
Mobile applications
Mobile computing
Occupational health
Prevention
Public health
Risk factors
School construction
Schools
Smartphones
Software
Sri Lanka
Surveillance
Technology
Vector-borne diseases
Viral diseases
Workers
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Summary: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. 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. 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.
ISSN:1472-6947
1472-6947
DOI:10.1186/s12911-019-0829-5