Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
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User Requirements toward a Real-
Time Biosur
veillance Program
Nuwan Waidyanatha
LIRNEasia
Kunming, China
Suma Prashant
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
Chennai, India
CoNTENTS
13.1 Introduction............................................................................................... 240
13.2 Sri Lanka Disease Surveillance and Notification System................... 241
13.2.1 National Epidemiology Unit Organizational Structure ......... 241
13.2.2 Disease Surveillance and Notification Processes .................... 241
13.2.3 Sarvodaya Comprehensive Community Health Services ...... 245
13.3 State of Tamil Nadu Disease Control System ....................................... 245
13.3.1 Health Department Organizational Structure......................... 246
13.3.2 Primary Health Centre Health Data Communication
Processes........................................................................................ 248
13.4. Top-Down, Bottom-Up Approach for Requirements Analysis.......... 250
13.4.1 Business Study.............................................................................. 251
13.4.2 Conceptual Design....................................................................... 251
13.4.3 Communicating with the Users ................................................. 252
13.4.3.1
Sri Lanka Health Worker Meeting ............................. 252
13.4.3.2
Tami Nadu Health Worker Meeting .......................... 253
13.5
Deduced Set of User Requirements ....................................................... 253
13.5.1 Functions, Actors, and Roles of RTBP ....................................... 254
13.5.2 Optimal Set of Inputs, Outputs, and Functionality of ICT
System .......................................................................................... 257
13.5.2.1
Gathering of Disease and Syndrome Data................ 257
13.5.2.2
Relational Database for Storing Gathered Data ....... 257
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