Biology Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 13.1
RTBP ICT System Functions, Actors, and Roles and Responsibilities
Sri Lankan actors
Indian actors
Function
Expected
Actual
Expected
Actual
Roles and responsibilities
Data collection and
submission
Public Health
Inspector
Suwadana
Centre
Volunteer
Village Health
Nurse, Sector
Health Nurse
Village Health
Nurse, Sector
Health Nurse
Gather disease, symptoms, signs, gender, and
age group records with respect to in- and
outpatient visitations from the healthcare
providers (hospitals, clinics, general
practitioners, community health centers,
etc.) in their jurisdiction; submit digitized
data directly to a central relational database
Analysis
Medical Oficer of
Health, Regional
Epidemiologist,
Chief
Epidemiologist
Medical
Oficer of
Health
National
Institute for
Communicable
Diseases,
Deputy
Director of
Health Services
Deputy Director
of Health
Services
Periodically examine data stored in the
central database for a given time period
with the use of software tools to manually
detect adverse events. Set the parameter
thresholds and criteria for machine
learning algorithms to auto-detect adverse
events in the data
Decision making
Medical Oficer of
Health, Regional
Epidemiologist,
Chief
Epidemiologist
Medical
Oficer of
Health
Block Medical
Oficer, Deputy
Director of
Health Services,
Director of
Public Health
Services,
National
Institute for
Communicable
Diseases
Deputy Director
of Health
Services
Epidemiology
Unit
When an adverse event (such as a possible
disease outbreak or unusually increase of
similar cases) is detected through the
analysis process, the designated decision
makers must decide whether or not the
event is of signiicance to be communicated
downstream to the designated healthcare
workers in the vulnerable geographical
areas
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