NOW Corp. in partnership with the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication is offering an IT-based solution, COVID-19 Surveillance System (CSS), to the Department of Health, Department of Information and Communications Technology, and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infections Diseases for the comprehensive containment of COVID-19 infections.
CSS is an end-to-end information technology solution that will be executed together with the Viettel Group, Vietnam’s largest telecom firm, following the three-step World Health Organization approach: contact identification, contact listing and contact follow up.
According to NOW, CSS has helped Vietnam fight the coronavirus disease and has exhibited a well-coordinated response against the pandemic.
Contact identification will be made easier through quick access to an online comprehensive form that ensures secure data validation and verification and features real-time updates, the company said.
The system includes a Doctor24 mobile application whereby doctors and medical professionals can quickly gather medical information on the status of patients identified as “Confirmed” to have been infected, a “Suspected” case or “Probable” case, it added.
The CSS Dashboard will be the reporting system that can aid the government in gathering real-time data on the patient/individual as captured from the health declaration system and the Doctor24 system, NOW said.
The dashboard can generate accurate reporting of the patient/individual for contact tracing purposes and will act as the basis of accurate data as required by the different government agencies to quickly evaluate the situation in order to issue appropriate policies, guidelines and measures to address the crisis.
