proposal: rapid epidemiological and notification system (rens)

DR KAMARUL IMRAN MUSA : RENS

CDC has Rapid Notification Systemfor Healthcare Professionals provides occasional time-sensitive e-mail

messages about important healthcare events (e.g., outbreaks. product recalls)

The Center for Health Protection (CHP) of Hong Kong Department of Health on Tuesday has launched an online reporting system to boost the efficiency of the existing surveillance system on infectious diseases real-time surveillance



Data entry point

epidemiologist

Microbiologist

Management team

Need rapid alert systemFast reactionMinimum error replacing old paper

pen methodsPredictive abilityExperts in data analysis to model

disease faster and more accurately


1. To develop a reliable online notification system based on the “Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit yang Perlu Dilaporkan” or health 1 Rev form from Ministry of Health Malaysia known as RENS

2. To determine the usefulness of RENS in terms of mean days of notification done and the time of first contact tracing done

3. To determine the characteristics of notifiable infectious diseases managed in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) from January 2009 to December 2009 using RENS


Type : Cross-sectional study Study duration : January 2009 – December

2009 Software Development :▪ Source : Open Source▪ Model : based on ‘Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit

yang Perlu Dilaporkan” form developed by Ministry of Health Malaysia▪ Data : web-based and client-based ▪ Prototype : will be known as “Rapid

Epidemiological Notification System” or “RENS”▪ Fields : 70-80 fields or variables


Source of data▪ Records of patients from Unit Rekod admitted

during study duration Inclusion criteria▪ All patients diagnosed with notifiable infectious

diseases based on on ‘Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit yang Perlu Dilaporkan” form developed by Ministry of Health Malaysia in HUSM

▪ All patients diagnosed with notifiable infectious diseases based on on ‘Notifikasi Penyakit Berjangkit yang Perlu Dilaporkan” form developed by Ministry of Health Malaysia refered to HUSM


Statistics▪ Data entry : “Rapid Epidemiological

Notification System” or “RENS”▪ Data transfer : data need to be transferred

automatically from RENS to statistical software such as SPSS or Stata using text-based format▪ Data analysis:▪ Descritptive▪ Inferential


Expertise PPSP (JPM) PPSK/PPIK

Data entry √

Software development

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Software testing √

IT Infrastructure √

Data analysis √

Disease modeling √

Emergency prepardness

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1. RENS provide a minimum error of notification 2. RENS will replace the manual notification

system3. RENS will enable epidemiologist and ID

physicians to have almost real time data of possible outbreak

4. RENS will enhance emergency preparedness in dealing with infectious diseases

5. RENS will be cheap but reliable compared to Window-based software

6. RENS can be implemented in all KKM hospitals and even in private hospitals


An software Which is user friendly That replaces old pen and paper method With minimum error That enables rapid early alert

notificationWorkable IT infrastructure in

surveillance


No Item Est Cost

1 Software -

2 Server Rm8000

3 PCs Rm2000*4

4 RO Rm1800*12

Notes : budget for other relevant VOTS need further calculations


proposal: rapid epidemiological and notification system (rens)

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