Design and application of the emergency response mobile phone‐based information system for infectious disease reporting in the Wenchuan earthquake zone

Ma, Jiaqi; Zhou, Maigeng; Li, Yanfei; Guo, Yan; Su, Xuemei; Qi, Xiaopeng; Ge, Hui

doi:10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01018.x

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“…The most common disease focus was on NCDs (n=15) [ 22 , 25 , 26 , 29 , 30 , 34 , 37 - 39 , 42 , 45 , 46 , 52 , 56 , 57 ], whereas 12 studies focused on infectious diseases [ 33 , 41 , 51 , 53 , 54 , 58 - 64 ] and 8 studies were designed for maternal and child health [ 36 , 40 , 43 , 47 - 49 , 55 , 65 ]. A wide range of study designs was used to evaluate or describe the mHealth intervention, including 18 exploratory studies that described, validated, or pilot-tested mHealth interventions without any quantitative outcome assessment [ 18 - 28 , 58 - 62 , 64 , 66 ]. A total of 31 studies quantitatively evaluated the mHealth intervention [ 29 - 57 , 63 , 65 ], of which 19 utilized a RCT design [ 29 - 35 , 38 - 40 , 43 , 47 , 51 - 53 , 56 , 57 , 63 , 65 ] whereas the remainder used a quasi-experimental study design (n=12).…”

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“…A total of 31 studies quantitatively evaluated the mHealth intervention [ 29 - 57 , 63 , 65 ], of which 19 utilized a RCT design [ 29 - 35 , 38 - 40 , 43 , 47 , 51 - 53 , 56 , 57 , 63 , 65 ] whereas the remainder used a quasi-experimental study design (n=12). In most cases, the primary mobile technology was a regular mobile phone (n=36) [ 18 , 19 , 21 , 25 , 29 - 49 , 51 , 53 - 57 , 59 , 62 - 65 ]. Only 12 studies utilized smartphone technology for the intervention [ 20 , 22 - 24 , 26 - 28 , 50 , 52 , 58 , 61 , 66 ].…”

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mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in China: A Systematic Review

Tian¹,

Zhang²,

Luo³

et al. 2017

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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BackgroundWith rapidly expanding infrastructure in China, mobile technology has been deemed to have the potential to revolutionize health care delivery. There is particular promise for mobile health (mHealth) to positively influence health system reform and confront the new challenges of chronic diseases.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to systematically review existing mHealth initiatives in China, characterize them, and examine the extent to which mHealth contributes toward the health system strengthening in China. Furthermore, we also aimed to identify gaps in mHealth development and evaluation.MethodsWe systematically reviewed the literature from English and Chinese electronic database and trial registries, including PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane, China National Knowledge of Infrastructure (CNKI), and World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. We used the English keywords of mHealth, eHealth, telemedicine, telehealth, mobile phone, cell phone, text messaging, and China, as well as their corresponding Chinese keywords. All articles using mobile technology for health care management were included in the study.ResultsA total of 1704 articles were found using the search terms, and eventually 72 were included. Overall, few high quality interventions were identified. Most interventions were found to be insufficient in scope, and their evaluation was of inadequate rigor to generate scalable solutions and provide reliable evidence of effectiveness. Most interventions focused on text messaging for consumer education and behavior change. There were a limited number of interventions that addressed health information management, health workforce issues, use of medicines and technologies, or leadership and governance from a health system perspective.ConclusionsWe provide four recommendations for future mHealth interventions in China that include the need for the development, evaluation and trials examining integrated mHealth interventions to guide the development of future mHealth interventions, target disadvantaged populations with mHealth interventions, and generate appropriate evidence for scalable and sustainable models of care.

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mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in China: A Systematic Review

Tian¹,

Zhang²,

Luo³

et al. 2017

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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“…After many medical institutions were damaged by the earthquake, in the process destroying the underlying communications network, higher authorities had no way of obtaining accurate disaster and injury information, rendering them unable to reliably allocate resources; for example, rescue workers were en route to the earthquake epicenter to begin rescue operations before discovering that the damage in Beichuan city was much more severe than in the epicenter, Wenchuan. Ten days after the earthquake, research and development yielded a light‐based emergency communication network system, allowing for damage reporting during power outages and accurate and correct decision‐making and information support for rescue operations (11). This suggests that cloud computing technology should be used to strengthen the information and communications networks between medical institutions.…”

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Lessons learnt from the Wenchuan earthquake: performance evaluation of treatment of critical injuries in hardest‐hit areas

Jiang

Huang

et al. 2012

J Evidence Based Medicine

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The medical relief model of "supervising body helping subordinate unit, severely stricken areas assisting hardest-hit areas, least-hit areas supporting both hardest-hit and severely stricken areas, and self help and mutual assistance applied between hardest-hit areas" was roughly established for injured from severely stricken areas after the Wenchuan Earthquake. The "four-centralization" treatment principle, which referred to concentrating patients, experts, resources and treatment for those injured in critical condition effectively reduced the mortality from 15.06% to 2.9%. Timely, scientific, and standard on-site triage and postmedical transfer guided by accurate injury information determine rescue effect for the injured, while there is large space to fulfill as for treatment for critical diseases among the hardest-hit areas under extreme conditions after the Wenchuan earthquake.

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“…Eleven articles used frameworks that employed process-modeling techniques, often based on computer modeling. (81)(82)(83)(84)(85)(86)(87)(88)(89)(90)(91) The process-modeling frameworks were applied in the context of administrative registries, (84,85,91) outpatient surgery,(87) pharmaceutical delivery, (86) diagnostic support (radiology, (88) pathology, (83) lab, (81) and diabetes diagnostics(82)), process management, (89) and communicable disease reporting. 90The frameworks included Unified Modeling Language (UML) with or without Time Process Study comprised of process analysis and time and motion studies, (84,85,91) Medical Module (as a UML-class diagram),(89) IDEF0 and IDEF3,(90) Business Process Modeling Notation,(83) Situated, Strategic, and AI-enhanced method,(81) Object Process Methodology, (88) Business mapping framework, (86) and Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control.…”

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Business model framework applications in health care: A systematic review

Fredriksson

Mazzocato

Rafiq

et al. 2017

Health Serv Manage Res

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It has proven to be a challenge for health care organizations to achieve the Triple Aim. In the business literature, business model frameworks have been used to understand how organizations are aligned to achieve their goals. We conducted a systematic literature review with an explanatory synthesis approach to understand how business model frameworks have been applied in health care. We found a large increase in applications of business model frameworks during the last decade. E-health was the most common context of application. We identified six applications of business model frameworks: business model description, financial assessment, classification based on pre-defined typologies, business model analysis, development, and evaluation. Our synthesis suggests that the choice of business model framework and constituent elements should be informed by the intent and context of application. We see a need for harmonization in the choice of elements in order to increase generalizability, simplify application, and help organizations realize the Triple Aim.

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Design and application of the emergency response mobile phone‐based information system for infectious disease reporting in the Wenchuan earthquake zone

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mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in China: A Systematic Review

mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in China: A Systematic Review

Lessons learnt from the Wenchuan earthquake: performance evaluation of treatment of critical injuries in hardest‐hit areas

Business model framework applications in health care: A systematic review

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