Reply To: Week 2 Topic discussion 1:

[Wai Phyo Aung]

How could information technology be applied to assist the outbreak investigation process?
Information technology could assist in many aspect of an outbreak investigation.
1) In verification and preparation step;
IT can facilitate in real time data collection of data to calculate the magnitude of it. It can support insightful information for verification of diagnosis, location, case trend, contact tracing, history taking.
2) In description of outbreak;
Advanced epidemiological expression can be conducted by commanding the statistical and mathematical calculation to describe the outbreak.
3) In Hypothesis and Testing;
It can also play as a pivotal role in testing the result. IT can provide fast and reliable information of the result. IT can generate the information based on imported data and requested command like seasonal trend, onset of case, sensitivity, Predict value positive (PVP).
4) In Response and Action;
IT is essential to be an effective response and action plan. The response and case data can be display as dashboard and it can also be used to communicate with the stakeholders in developing action plan.