Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community

Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which aims at enhancing the capability of Hong Kong in the control and prevention of communicable diseases.

Objective

This paper describes how the CHP of Hong Kong designed and deployed an online interactive system that uses the data from ED for syndromic surveillance.