New Technologies for Reporting Real-time Emergent Infections

Overview

Journal Parasitology

Specialty Parasitology

Date 2012 Aug 17

PMID 22894823

Citations 20

Authors

Rumi Chunara

Clark C Freifeld

John S Brownstein

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Abstract

Novel technologies have prompted a new paradigm in disease surveillance. Advances in computation, communications and materials enable new technologies such as mobile phones and microfluidic chips. In this paper we illustrate examples of new technologies that can augment disease detection. We describe technologies harnessing the internet, mobile phones, point of care diagnostic tools and methods that facilitate detection from passively collected unstructured data. We demonstrate how these can all assist in quicker detection, investigation and response to emerging infectious events. Novel technologies enable collection and dissemination of epidemic intelligence data to both public health practitioners and the general public, enabling finer temporal and spatial resolution of disease monitoring than through traditional public health processes.

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