Developing Data Visualization for Hospital-based Surveillance Under the Communicable Disease Act B.E. 2558
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Introduction: In 2022, Division of Epidemiology developed a system for disease reporting under the Communicable Disease Act B.E. 2558 via an application programming interface, enabling hospitals to send reports directly to the central platform of the Department of Disease Control, called the Digital Surveillance System. The system designer therefore had an idea to develop a tool to visualize disease situations to support agencies at all levels to access and analyze data according to user needs.
Methodology: A scoping review was used to review existing documents and research, and then analyze the data both quantitatively with descriptive statistics and qualitatively by thematic analyzing the essence.
Results: From 50 searched articles on the specified websites, a total of 30 articles were included in the review, with sources from 6 regions around the world. Key issues for tool development were found, divided into 3 issues: 1) Objectives and use, 2) Report content, and 3) Interactive use on the screen. The main challenges were technological infrastructure, monitoring of data accuracy and quality, and data governance.
Conclusion: The review of related articles allowed system designers to determine guidelines for developing tools to display disease situation reports including reporting indicators, epidemic detection, major disease notification, and tracking of epidemiological distribution. The tools should take into account the duties and powers under the scope of the Communicable Disease Act B.E. 2558 and the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562.
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