Launched in 2016, Continuous Surveillance System and Electronic Medical Record Integration in Nepal uses digital health data and a mobile-based household survey to identify, monitor, and respond to illnesses identified at a facility or through community interactions at the household level. The system is expanding in Dolakha and Achham and Community Health Workers are now using fingerprinting while enrolling community members. The information collected feeds back to healthcare workers and the government, providing critical surveillance data to shorten both the detection timeline and the time for response.
The Continuous Surveillance System improves epidemic response by public health officials and health workers. The project also aims to validate integrated electronic medical records as capable of creating accurate surveillance data from syndromic and diagnostic information collected at the point of care.
