Managing knowledge integration in a national health-care crisis: lessons learned from combating SARS in Singapore

Paul Raj Devadoss; Shan Ling Pan; Shreyan Singh

doi:10.1109/TITB.2005.847160

Managing knowledge integration in a national health-care crisis: lessons learned from combating SARS in Singapore

Paul Raj Devadoss, Shan Ling Pan, Shreyan Singh

Aston Business School

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Abstract

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is the first severe and readily transmissible disease to emerge in the 21st century. Often one new infection meant tracing of several people to monitor their health conditions as well. In Singapore, several agencies coordinated their efforts to quickly bring the outbreak under control. The current breed of health-care information systems (HCIS) was not sufficient to handle new information-sharing needs during the crisis. In this paper, we take a look at the measures taken during the crisis in Singapore through a knowledge integration perspective. This perspective reveals interesting implications for HCIS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	266-275
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2005.847160
Publication status	Published - Jun 2005

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence
Case Management
Contact Tracing
Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/epidemiology
Singapore
Systems Integration

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