Featured Article: Premier Modernizes COVID-19 Surveillance, Calls the Need Urgent
News Source | Healthcare IT Today |
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Written by | Andy Oram |
Syndromic surveillance is a public health campaign that can track symptoms of disease in the community and use the resulting insights to predict hospital utilization during a surge, inform reopening, enable quick policy changes, or reallocate resources. COVID-19 is a clear candidate for this kind of aggressive monitoring.