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Leveraging Advances in Health IT to Prevent and Combat the Spread of Avian Influenza and other Infectious Diseases, August 2009

988-APEC HIT report cover
Published Date January 2010
Type of Publication Reports
Publication Under SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE), Health Working Group (HWG)
Accessed 63761
Pages 20
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Description

This is a report of the seminar held in Singapore comprising of stakeholders representing science, medicine, policy, public health, and industry assembled who shared experiences and ideas around leveraging advances in health information technology (HIT) in order to prevent and combat the spread of infectious diseases.

  • Summary
  • Why Health IT?
  • APEC economies: Leveraging IT for disease outbreak detection and management
  • Barriers to HIT implementation in combating infectious disease
  • Global policy context / H1N1 Influenza
  • Additional HIT case studies
  • About the sponsors
  • Index of key words