Online fever tracker to be introduced by January
Posted on: 02/Nov/2016 12:35:43 PM
As of now data is collected from doctors and hospitals by health inspectors and uploaded on an excel sheet every day. It takes more than half a day to upload the data and there are complaints that numbers given by the private sector are not uploaded.
Now a flu tracker is being developed by the National Informatics Centre and is expected to go live by January next year,
Director of public health Dr K Kolandaisamy said: This software will reduce delay or loss in uploading cases that have been tested positive for infectious diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dengue, malaria or Chikungunya. The data will give us the number of people with infectious diseases in a particular area. Once we have that data, we will be able to undertake preventive measures. In the new system, doctors will be given a user-id and password. They will have to upload patient details along with laboratory reports on a website but details will be confidential.
