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Front Public Health. 2017 Mar 17;5:49. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00049. eCollection 2017.
[h=1]FluMob: Enabling Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections in Health-care Workers via Mobile Phones.[/h] Lwin MO[SUP]1[/SUP], Yung CF[SUP]2[/SUP], Yap P[SUP]3[/SUP], Jayasundar K[SUP]1[/SUP], Sheldenkar A[SUP]1[/SUP], Subasinghe K[SUP]1[/SUP], Foo S[SUP]1[/SUP], Jayasinghe UG[SUP]4[/SUP], Xu H[SUP]3[/SUP], Chai SC[SUP]3[/SUP], Kurlye A[SUP]4[/SUP], Chen J[SUP]2[/SUP], Ang BS[SUP]3[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Singapore is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases and faces a constant risk of pandemic outbreaks as a major travel and health hub for Southeast Asia. With an increasing penetration of smart phone usage in this region, Singapore's pandemic preparedness framework can be strengthened by applying a mobile-based approach to health surveillance and control, and improving upon existing ideas by addressing gaps, such as a lack of health communication. FluMob is a digitally integrated syndromic surveillance system designed to assist health authorities in obtaining real-time epidemiological and surveillance data from health-care workers (HCWs) within Singapore, by allowing them to report influenza incidence using smartphones. The system, integrating a fully responsive web-based interface and a mobile interface, is made available to HCW using various types of mobile devices and web browsers. Real-time data generated from FluMob will be complementary to current health-care- and laboratory-based systems. This paper describes the development of FluMob, as well as challenges faced in the creation of the system.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] application; health-care workers; influenza; mobile phones; mobile-health; surveillance
PMID: 28367433 PMCID: PMC5355489 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00049
[h=1]FluMob: Enabling Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections in Health-care Workers via Mobile Phones.[/h] Lwin MO[SUP]1[/SUP], Yung CF[SUP]2[/SUP], Yap P[SUP]3[/SUP], Jayasundar K[SUP]1[/SUP], Sheldenkar A[SUP]1[/SUP], Subasinghe K[SUP]1[/SUP], Foo S[SUP]1[/SUP], Jayasinghe UG[SUP]4[/SUP], Xu H[SUP]3[/SUP], Chai SC[SUP]3[/SUP], Kurlye A[SUP]4[/SUP], Chen J[SUP]2[/SUP], Ang BS[SUP]3[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Singapore is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases and faces a constant risk of pandemic outbreaks as a major travel and health hub for Southeast Asia. With an increasing penetration of smart phone usage in this region, Singapore's pandemic preparedness framework can be strengthened by applying a mobile-based approach to health surveillance and control, and improving upon existing ideas by addressing gaps, such as a lack of health communication. FluMob is a digitally integrated syndromic surveillance system designed to assist health authorities in obtaining real-time epidemiological and surveillance data from health-care workers (HCWs) within Singapore, by allowing them to report influenza incidence using smartphones. The system, integrating a fully responsive web-based interface and a mobile interface, is made available to HCW using various types of mobile devices and web browsers. Real-time data generated from FluMob will be complementary to current health-care- and laboratory-based systems. This paper describes the development of FluMob, as well as challenges faced in the creation of the system.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] application; health-care workers; influenza; mobile phones; mobile-health; surveillance
PMID: 28367433 PMCID: PMC5355489 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00049