disease outbreaks

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Using the Latest Advances in Data Science to Fight Infectious Diseases

One of the most dramatic shifts in recent years that is empowering epidemiologists to be more effective at their jobs is occurring due to improvements in data technologies. In the past, the old "relational" data model dictated that data had to be highly structured, and as a result treated in distinct silos. This made it difficult, if not impossible, to analyze data from multiple sources to find correlations. Epidemiologists would spend many minutes or even hours on each query they ran to get results back, which is unacceptable when you need to test dozens of hypotheses to try to understand and contain a fast-moving outbreak. (Imagine how you would feel if each one of your Google searches took 45 minutes to return!) By contrast, using newer technologies, the same queries on the same hardware can run in seconds. Read More »

Wireless Access for Health Project and Open Source HIS to Expand to All Tarlac Health Clinics in the Philippines

Press Release | Qualcomm Incorporated | May 23, 2012

Tarlac to Become the First Philippine Province to Use 3G Technology and a Modern [Open Source] Health Information System to Enable More Responsive Health Care for an Entire Province
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Zambian Minister Says Open Source DHIS2 Is Vital for Healthcare

Chali Mulenga | Zambia Daily Mail | June 5, 2015

[Zambia's] Deputy Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya says district health information systems are critical for surveillance and planning in the provision healthcare services. Dr Chilufya said the health sector in collaboration with co-operating partners commenced the implementation of a web-based health facility data base called district health information system (DHIS2). He was speaking in Livingstone on Wednesday during the DHIS2 academy training conducted by Oslo University.

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