Vietnam epidemic warning software

With only a computer connected to the network, people can update the whole scene, warnings, prevention . when there are diseases occurring.

The darker the color, the more dangerous the epidemic

The above software has been successfully applied by Prof. Dr. Vu Duc Thi, former Director of the Institute of Information Technology. According to Prof. Dr. Vu Duc Thi, the current disease warning process is done mainly by phone or text with a rather complicated cycle. Information to reach people must go through many stages.

Within 24 hours from the detection of diseases and syndromes of international quarantine, infectious diseases under management, unknown diseases of unknown causes with abnormally high morbidity or mortality in the locality, Medical establishments must report urgently to the superior agency. The report states the time, place, number of cases, the number of deaths and reports on the implementation of anti-epidemic measures, then continues to report on the situation until the end. Translate.

In order to be able to unify the nationwide management of infectious disease prevention and control, the system uses website technology to design and the database will be concentrated at a focal point as the Preventive Medicine Department. The system allows decentralization for each unit at each level. Each unit is granted the rights to access data corresponding to its level such as data entry, data viewing, data editing, reporting of information under its management.

Prof. Dr. Vu Duc Thi said, in this system, the data entry units reported by their management units. Through the internet environment, this data will be updated to the server located at Vietnam Preventive Medicine Department. For the updated data from the bottom, the superior is not required to update again, but only update the information of the level under his management. The color indicator on the screen indicates the degree of danger of the disease. Assuming that for bird flu, it is divided into 3 levels: over 2000 infected ones are the highest, the second is 1000-2000 and the third is under 1,000. Colors display in the direction of gradual gradation from high to low.

Through software, people also learn how to prevent disease.

Advice on how to prevent epidemics

In order to avoid data problems such as broken disk, power failure, overload . causing the system to stall or unable to meet the needs of users, users can use the database management system itself. to perform automatic or semi-automatic data backup function. In addition to giving warnings about epidemics, the software also provides a lot of content including related information about such epidemics as infectivity, how to prevent infection, how to stamp epidemics, forecast trends. increase or decrease of the epidemic .

The results of implementation in some localities show that the software can be replicated in many localities, forming a network of disease warning. When there is no epidemic, the software will update hygiene knowledge, health care protection, signs of disease identification.

What makes Prof. Dr. Vu Duc Thi wonder that despite the very good research results, he can help health workers effectively in propagating information about the disease, but its application. In the way of replication to other localities, there are many difficulties. Funding for investment in computers and the internet is not large because almost every local infrastructure is available. Just install the software that runs in the system to update the information. However, most localities still choose the old way of information by phone or report the disease situation in writing. As a result, many places have slow reporting, hidden translation, or when reporting to the place, the situation of disease changes has been much different.