Designing a Disease Outbreak Notification System in Saudi Arabia
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This paper describes the design and development of a Disease Outbreak Notification System (DONS) in Saudi Arabia. The main function of DONS is to warn for potential outbreaks. A prototype of the DONS was implemented in a hybrid cloud environment as an online/real-time disease outbreak notification system. The system notifies experts of potential disease outbreaks of both pre-listed diseases and totally unknown diseases. The system only accepts cases from pre-registered sources. It is designed to also share information about disease outbreaks with international systems. As soon as the system detects a potential disease outbreak it notifies stakeholders and experts. The system takes feedback from experts to improve the disease detection capabilities and to adapt to new situations.
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