Epidemic intelligence in Europe: a user needs perspective to foster innovation in digital health surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

European epidemic intelligence (EI) systems receive vast amounts of information and data on disease outbreaks and potential health threats. The quantity and variety of available data sources for EI, as well as the available methods to manage and analyse these data sources, are constantly increasing. Our aim was to identify the difficulties encountered in this context and which innovations, according to EI practitioners, could improve the detection, monitoring and analysis of disease outbreaks and the emergence of new pathogens.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study to identify the need for innovation expressed by 33 EI practitioners of national public health and animal health agencies in five European countries and at the European Centre for Disease Prevention

SUBMITTER: Bouyer F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10999084 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature