EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROACTIVE SURVEILLANCE BASED ON ASTERISK AND PHP

Xabier Basogain
Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spain

Virgilio Cane
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud
Paraguay

Pedro Galván
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud,
Paraguay

M.A. Olabe
Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spain

Koldo Espinosa
Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spain

M.A. Gómez, J.L. Larrabe, M. Cabral*
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, UPV-EHU, Alameda Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, España
* Dpto. de Ingeniería Biomédica e Imágenes, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, UNA, Río de la Plata y Lagerenza. CC 2511 Asunción, Paraguay

Abstract:
The new services of ICTs applied to the health sector in developing countries are opening new horizons in the field of epidemiological surveillance. Moreover, if these services are proactive them may be more effective in the prevention, facilitating the work of primary care units and optimizing the policies of the agencies responsible for public health. Our research group in collaboration with the Research Institute of Health Sciences (IICS) from Paraguay, is developing a surveillance system for febrile syndromes based on a VoIP Asterisk PBX software and its interaction with databases and forms via web scripting language php.