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Editor, Senior Moderator
Telemed J E Health. 2014 Mar 10. [Epub ahead of print]
A New Paradigm for Disease Surveillance in Vietnam.
Katona LB1, Rosen JM, Vu NC, Nguyen CK, Dang LT, Thiem VD, Nguyen KC, Ratner KG, Gan K, Katona P.
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Abstract
Abstract Medical surveillance data from all government health clinics in Vietnam are currently collected through a slow, paper-driven process. Short message service (SMS) technology delivered through mobile phones offers a simple solution to improving the speed through which disease surveillance information can be collected. Identifying health concerns earlier with this mobile-based disease surveillance system has the potential to improve the care for patients seen at community health clinics as well as predict more quickly that a medical emergency, such as a pandemic, will occur. Thus, we piloted the feasibility of an SMS-based disease surveillance system designed for healthcare workers in Vietnam to directly report disease information on diarrhea and influenza-like illness to a central data repository using their mobile phones and an intuitive, user-friendly platform. This article reports data from 1,579 patient data entries in 20 Vietnamese health clinics during a 6-month period.
PMID:
24611518
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24611518
A New Paradigm for Disease Surveillance in Vietnam.
Katona LB1, Rosen JM, Vu NC, Nguyen CK, Dang LT, Thiem VD, Nguyen KC, Ratner KG, Gan K, Katona P.
Author information
Abstract
Abstract Medical surveillance data from all government health clinics in Vietnam are currently collected through a slow, paper-driven process. Short message service (SMS) technology delivered through mobile phones offers a simple solution to improving the speed through which disease surveillance information can be collected. Identifying health concerns earlier with this mobile-based disease surveillance system has the potential to improve the care for patients seen at community health clinics as well as predict more quickly that a medical emergency, such as a pandemic, will occur. Thus, we piloted the feasibility of an SMS-based disease surveillance system designed for healthcare workers in Vietnam to directly report disease information on diarrhea and influenza-like illness to a central data repository using their mobile phones and an intuitive, user-friendly platform. This article reports data from 1,579 patient data entries in 20 Vietnamese health clinics during a 6-month period.
PMID:
24611518
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24611518