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At least 24 countries have established digital surveillance of their citizens. [8] The digital surveillance technologies include COVID-19 apps, location data and electronic tags. [8] The Center For Disease Control and Prevention in USA tracks the travel information of individuals using airline passenger data. [9] [10]
Disease surveillance is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression. The main role of disease surveillance is to predict, observe, and minimize the harm caused by outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic situations, as well as increase knowledge about which factors contribute to such circumstances.
Syndromic surveillance is the analysis of medical data to detect or anticipate disease outbreaks.According to a CDC definition, "the term 'syndromic surveillance' applies to surveillance using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its infectious disease surveillance program at four major US airports to more than 30 pathogens, including flu, RSV and other ...
Tele-epidemiology is the application of telecommunications to epidemiological research and application, including space-based and internet-based systems.. Tele-epidemiology applies satellite communication systems to investigate or support investigations of infectious disease outbreak, including disease reemergence.
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (African Union) [45] [46] [47] Caribbean Public Health Agency ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Central American Region (CDC-CAR; Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC; EU) Eurosurveillance
Infoveillance is a type of syndromic surveillance that specifically utilizes information found online. [1] The term, along with the term infodemiology, was coined by Gunther Eysenbach to describe research that uses online information to gather information about human behavior.
Real-time outbreak and disease surveillance system (RODS) is a syndromic surveillance system developed by the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biomedical Informatics. [1]