Professor in the Institute of Health Management
| Selected winner: | Institute of Health Management, Southern Medical University |
| Solution name: | Cloud-Based System for Effective Surveillance and Control of COVID-19 |
| Origin of the winner: | China |
The Institute of Health and Health Management, Southern Medical University is an interdisciplinary collaborative innovation platform organized by Southern Medical University. It consists of the Health Management Research Center, the Health and Health Policy Research Center and the Health and Health Economics Research Center.
Cloud-Based System for Effective Surveillance and Control of COVID-19
The Honghu Hybrid System (HHS) was developed as a pilot practice for COVID-19 hybrid surveillance and control system, in response to the emerging need for an innovative surveillance system. In this pilot practice, HHS provided a stable trend of positive reports, which provided strong evidence for the assessment of local countermeasure with high population coverage (>95% of the residents) and daily active reports (>600 000 person-times).
HHS played a critical role for local authorities to evaluate the effectiveness of disease management and make timely adjustments accordingly. Secondly, HHS provided a validated in-hospital mortality prediction system for patients with COVID-19 to improve health outcomes through prioritized medical resources and improved clinical care. HHS also collected discharged patient’s daily symptom reports and achieved 100% coverage within 3 days. HHS helped strengthen the checkpoints on the full chain of COVID-19 surveillance and control, including “early test, early report, early isolation, and early treatment.”
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