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Health Systems for Syndromic and Epidemiological Surveillance

Published:2012 Issue: Volume: Page:246-263
ISSN:2328-1243
Container-title:Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration
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Author:

Job Débora Helena¹,Gomes Antônio Tadeu Azevedo²,Ziviani Artur²

Affiliation:

1. National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil

2. National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil & National Institute of Science and Technology on Medicine Assisted by Scientific Computing (INCT-MACC), Brazil

Abstract

Health surveillance practices date back to decades ago. Traditionally, such practices to gather health data have been manual; more recently, however, computerized health information systems have been applied to enhance and facilitate health information acquisition for surveillance. The so-called health surveillance systems put in practice the systematic acquisition of health data, which is stored and processed for expert analysis. This chapter makes a survey of health surveillance systems dedicated to syndromic and epidemiological surveillance, identifying the different design and technological strategies adopted in the development of such systems. The aims of such a survey are: (1) to provide practitioners with some information about the collective expertise of health information system architects in the design and implementation of syndromic and epidemiological surveillance systems; and (2) to pave the way for the establishment of software product lines dedicated to such systems.

Publisher

IGI Global

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