Transcript Proposal: RAPID EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

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CDC has Rapid Notification System
for Healthcare Professionals
 provides occasional time-sensitive e-mail messages
about important healthcare events (e.g., outbreaks.
product recalls)
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The Center for Health Protection (CHP) of Hong
Kong Department of Health on Tuesday has
launched an online reporting system to boost
the efficiency of the existing surveillance system
on infectious diseases real-time surveillance
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epidemiologist
Data entry
point
Microbiologist
Management team
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Need rapid alert system
Fast reaction
Minimum error replacing old paper pen
methods
Predictive ability
Experts in data analysis to model disease
faster and more accurately
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To develop a reliable online notification system
based on the “Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit yang
Perlu Dilaporkan” or health 1 Rev form from Ministry
of Health Malaysia known as RENS
2. To determine the usefulness of RENS in terms of
mean days of notification done and the time of first
contact tracing done
3. To determine the characteristics of notifiable
infectious diseases managed in Hospital Universiti
Sains Malaysia (HUSM) from January 2009 to
December 2009 using RENS
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 Type : Cross-sectional study
 Study duration : January 2009 – December 2009
 Software Development :
▪ Source : Open Source
▪ Model : based on ‘Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit yang
Perlu Dilaporkan” form developed by Ministry of Health
Malaysia
▪ Data : web-based and client-based
▪ Prototype : will be known as “Rapid Epidemiological
Notification System” or “RENS”
▪ Fields : 70-80 fields or variables
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 Source of data
▪ Records of patients from Unit Rekod admitted during
study duration
 Inclusion criteria
▪ All patients diagnosed with notifiable infectious
diseases based on on ‘Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit
yang Perlu Dilaporkan” form developed by Ministry of
Health Malaysia in HUSM
▪ All patients diagnosed with notifiable infectious
diseases based on on ‘Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit
yang Perlu Dilaporkan” form developed by Ministry of
Health Malaysia refered to HUSM
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 Statistics
▪ Data entry : “Rapid Epidemiological Notification
System” or “RENS”
▪ Data transfer : data need to be transferred automatically
from RENS to statistical software such as SPSS or Stata
using text-based format
▪ Data analysis:
▪ Descritptive
▪ Inferential
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Expertise
PPSP (JPM)
Data entry
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PPSK/PPIK
Software development
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Software testing
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IT Infrastructure
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Data analysis
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Disease modeling
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Emergency prepardness
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1. RENS provide a minimum error of notification
2. RENS will replace the manual notification system
3. RENS will enable epidemiologist and ID physicians
to have almost real time data of possible outbreak
4. RENS will enhance emergency preparedness in
dealing with infectious diseases
5. RENS will be cheap but reliable compared to
Window-based software
6. RENS can be implemented in all KKM hospitals and
even in private hospitals
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An software
 Which is user friendly
 That replaces old pen and paper method
 With minimum error
 That enables rapid early alert notification
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Workable IT infrastructure in surveillance
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No
Item
Est Cost
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Software
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2
Server
Rm8000
3
PCs
Rm2000*4
4
RO
Rm1800*12
Notes : budget for other relevant VOTS need further calculations
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