Mobile-based and open-source case detection and infectious disease outbreak management systems: A Review

 In this paper, researchers perform a rapid review of existing mobile-based, open-source systems for infectious disease outbreak data collection and management. Their inclusion criteria were designed to match the PANDORA-ID-NET consortium’s goals for capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa, and to reflect the lessons learned from the 2014–16 West African Ebola outbreak. They found eight candidate systems that satisfy some or most of these criteria, but only one (SORMAS) fulfils all of them. In addition, they outline a number of desirable features that are not currently present in most outbreak management systems.

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