Use of cell phones for field data capture in a Dengue Decision Support System

在登革热决策支持系统中使用手机进行现场数据采集

• 批准号: 7738463
• 负责人: James Bieman
• 金额: $ 17.29万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7738463
• 关键词: Aedes; Arthropods; Bioinformatics; Cellular Phone; Collaborations; Colorado; Communicable Diseases; Communication; Computer software; Computers; Data; Data Collection; Databases; Decision Support Systems; Dengue; Dengue Virus; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Development; Disease; Environment; Feedback; Future; Goals; Health Professional; Home visitation; House Call; Human Resources; Immunology; Institution; Internet; Link; Malaria; Manuals; Methods; Mexico; Microbiology; Monitor; Paper; Pathology; Personal Digital Assistant; Prevention; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Radio; Relative (related person); Research Infrastructure; Resources; Risk Assessment; Scheme; Services; Solutions; Source; System; Telephone; Testing; Time; Universities; Vector-transmitted infectious disease; Visit; Water; Wireless Technology; base; computer science; cost; cost effectiveness; data exchange; data management; disorder prevention; electronic data; foodborne; improved; laptop; model development; novel; open source; outreach program; public health relevance; socioeconomics; software development; transmission process; vector; vector mosquito; web page

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria inflict a terrible and unacceptable burden on humankind and are impediments to socioeconomic development. Novel solutions to operationally improve prevention and control of these and other infectious diseases in resource-constrained environments are needed. We propose to expand a computer-based Dengue Decision Support System (DDSS), which is currently being developed in collaboration between Colorado State University (CSU) and academic (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, UAY) and public health institutions (Servicios de Salud de Yucatan, SSY) in Yucatan, Mexico, to support the use of cell phones for field capture and rapid transfer of data to a central DDSS database. Use of cell phones exploits existing communications infrastructure and also introduces near real time monitoring capacity. Specific Aims are to: (1) Develop software that allows the use of existing DDSS database schema and data entry screens for mosquito vector-related data on cell phones. This will be accomplished by a software development team including personnel from the CSU Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Dept. of Computer Science, and Center for Bioinformatics, and from UAY in Merida, Yucatan. We will use an iterative development model where software functionality (use cases) is successively added, field tested (see SA 2) and refined. The software will be open source and made freely available through the Colorado State University "Risk Assessment and Management Solutions for Arthropod-borne Infectious Diseases" webpage. (2) Operationally field test software use cases as well as the practical use of cell phones for field capture and transmission of mosquito vector-related data in Merida to a central DDSS database maintained at UAY. Personnel hired under a subcontract to UAY will accompany SSY teams during field surveillance and control of the dengue virus vector Aedes aegypti and duplicate data captured by SSY on paper forms through electronic data capture using cell phones equipped with the software developed in SA 1. Different methods to transfer field-collected data to our DDSS database server at UAY via cell phones will be explored including linking to the database through the Internet using a Wireless Application Protocol making use of the General Packet Radio Service system in the cellular network and cell phones with a laptop base without making use of the cellular network. System functionality and cost-effectiveness will be determined. We expect the use of cell phones for electronic data capture in the field to revolutionize data collection and improve data management practices for infectious diseases in developing countries in coming decades. This includes vector-borne, water-borne and food-borne diseases where data relating to the vector or source of contamination routinely are collected in the field. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Novel solutions are urgently needed to improve operational management of vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria in resource-constrained environments. We propose to expand a computer-based Dengue Decision Support System (DDSS), which is currently being developed in collaboration between Colorado State University and academic (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan) and public health institutions (Servicios de Salud de Yucatan) in Yucatan, Mexico, to support the use of cell phones for field capture and rapid transfer of data to a central DDSS database. The goals are to (1) develop software that allows the use of existing DDSS database schema and data entry screens for mosquito vector-related data on cell phones and (2) operationally field test software use cases as well as the practical use of cell phones for field capture and transmission of mosquito vector-related data in Merida, Yucatan, to a central DDSS database maintained at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan.

描述（由申请人提供）：登革热和疟疾等病媒传播疾病给人类造成了可怕和不可接受的负担，并阻碍了社会经济发展。需要新的解决方案，在资源有限的环境中有效地改善对这些和其他传染病的预防和控制。我们建议扩大一个基于计算机的登革热决策支持系统（DDSS），这是目前正在开发的科罗拉多州立大学（CSU）和学术（尤卡坦自治大学，UAY）和公共卫生机构（尤卡坦州，SSY）在尤卡坦州，墨西哥之间的合作，以支持使用手机进行现场捕获和快速传输数据到中央DDSS数据库。手机的使用利用了现有的通信基础设施，并且还引入了接近真实的时间监测能力。具体目标是：（1）开发软件，允许在手机上使用现有的DDSS数据库模式和数据输入屏幕，以获取与蚊子媒介有关的数据。这将由包括CSU部门人员在内的软件开发团队完成。微生物学、免疫学和病理学系计算机科学和生物信息学中心，以及尤卡坦州梅里达的UAY。我们将使用一个迭代开发模型，其中软件功能（用例）被连续地添加、现场测试（参见SA 2）和细化。该软件将是开源的，并通过科罗拉多州立大学“节肢动物传播的传染病风险评估和管理解决方案”网页免费提供。(2)实地操作测试软件用例，以及实际使用手机在梅里达实地采集和向设在阿联酋的中央DDSS数据库传输蚊子病媒相关数据。在驻阿拉伯联合酋长国特派团下雇用的人员将陪同SSY小组实地监测和控制登革热病毒载体埃及伊蚊，并通过配备SA 1开发的软件的手机进行电子数据采集，复制SSY在纸质表格上采集的数据。将探讨通过手机将现场收集的数据传输到我们在UAY的DDSS数据库服务器的不同方法，包括使用无线应用协议通过互联网链接到数据库，利用蜂窝网络中的通用分组无线电服务系统和手机与笔记本电脑底座，而不使用蜂窝网络。将确定系统的功能和成本效益。我们预计，在今后几十年里，在实地使用手机进行电子数据采集将使发展中国家的传染病数据收集发生革命性变化，并改善数据管理做法。这包括病媒传播、水媒传播和食源性疾病，在这些疾病中，与病媒或污染源有关的数据通常是在实地收集的。公共卫生关系：迫切需要新的解决方案，以改善资源有限环境中登革热和疟疾等病媒传播疾病的业务管理。我们建议扩大一个基于计算机的登革热决策支持系统（DDSS），该系统目前正在由科罗拉多州立大学和墨西哥尤卡坦州的学术机构（尤卡坦自治大学）和公共卫生机构（尤卡坦健康服务机构）合作开发，以支持使用手机， 实地采集数据并将数据快速传输到中央DDSS数据库。目标是：（1）开发软件，允许使用现有的DDSS数据库模式和数据输入屏幕，用于手机上的蚊媒相关数据;（2）操作现场测试软件用例，以及实际使用手机在尤卡坦州梅里达实地捕获和传输蚊媒相关数据，并将其传输到尤卡坦自治大学的中央DDSS数据库。