Understanding and improving the health status of communities depend on effective public health surveillance. Adoption of new technologies, standardised case definitions and clinical guidelines for accurate diagnosis, and access to timely and reliable data, remains a challenge for public health surveillance systems however and existing public health surveillance systems are often fragmented, disease specific, inconsistent and of poor quality. We describe the application of an enterprise architecture approach to the design, planning and implementation of a national public health surveillance system in Jordan. This enabled a well planned and collaboratively supported system to be built and implemented using consistent standards for data collection, management, reporting and use. The system is case-based and integrated and employs mobile information technology to aid collection of real-time, standardised data to inform and improve decision-making at different levels of the health system.
Perceptions de l'utilisation d'un système national de surveillance de santé publique intégré et électronique fondé sur les cas en JordanieRÉSUMÉ La collecte, en temps réel, de données normalisées constitue un défi pour les systèmes de surveillance de santé publique. L'utilisation des technologies de l'information mobiles peut faciliter cette tâche. En 2015, un système national de surveillance de santé publique fondé sur les cas et utilisant des tablettes et une plate-forme en ligne a été introduit en Jordanie. Suite à une formation sur l'utilisation du système, un sondage a été effectué auprès des utilisateurs pour connaître leurs perceptions concernant ce système. Sur 596 participants à la formation, 580 (97,3 %) ont complété le sondage. La majorité des utilisateurs étaient des personnels infirmiers (58,5 %). Les perceptions globales du système avaient tendance à être très positives dans cinq domaines de fonctionnalité, qui sont les suivants : les définitions de cas normalisées, les directives cliniques sur les signes et les symptômes, les facteurs de risque et les directives concernant les laboratoires, les SMS et les alertes par courriel des maladies à déclaration obligatoire, et la notification des informations sur une plate-forme en ligne dans un délai d'une heure. Dans tous les domaines, plus de 80 % des participants considéraient que le système leur servirait dans leur travail et leur ferait gagner du temps dans l'identification des maladies à déclaration obligatoire et la notification de cette information au niveau central. ABSTRACT Collection of real-time, standardized data remains a challenge for public health surveillance systems. The use of mobile information technology may facilitate this. A national case-based public health surveillance system was introduced in Jordan in 2015 using mobile tablets and an online framework. After training on the system, users were surveyed about their perceptions of it. Of 596 participants attending the training, 580 (97.3%) completed the survey. The majority of users were nurses (58.5%). Overall perceptions of the system were highly positive across 5 areas of functionality (standardized case definitions, clinical guidance on signs and symptoms, risk factors and laboratory guidance, SMS and Email alerts for notifiable diseases, one-hour reporting of information via an online framework). In all areas, over 80% of participants thought the system would help their work and would save time in identifying notifiable diseases and reporting this information centrally. Further work is encouraged to evaluate the system and consider the application of cloud-based models in other settings.
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