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Kai Hsun Hsiao¹, Emma Quinn^1,2, Travers Johnstone¹

¹Public Health Unit, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia.

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

|June 25, 2024

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The use of innovative digital health technologies in public health is expanding quickly, including the use of these tools in outbreak response. The translation of a digital health innovation into effective public health practice is a complex process requiring diverse enablers across the people, process, and technology domains. This paper describes a novel web-based application that was designed and implemented by a district-level public health authority to assist residential aged care facilities in influenza and COVID-19 outbreak detection and response. It discusses some of the challenges, enablers, and key lessons learned in designing and implementing such a novel application from the perspectives of the public health practitioners (the authors) that undertook this project.

Keywords:

aged care aged care homes communicable disease control digital health influenza outbreak surveillance web application

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