Open AccessGeneration of infectious disease alerts through the use of geolocation
Author(s) -
Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of electrical engineering and informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.251
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2302-9285
DOI - 10.11591/eei.v9i4.1945
Subject(s) - geolocation , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , computer science , key (lock) , focus (optics) , medicine , intensive care medicine , risk analysis (engineering) , data science , computer security , world wide web , pathology , physics , optics
In recent years, there have been several cases of global epidemics such as influenza B or Ebola. In these cases, several factors are key to limit the effects of the epidemic and avoid contagion. Between of them is the speed of knowing which persons are infected, which persons has been in contact with any infected person or know what the focus of the epidemic. In general, obtaining this information requires a process of research among the first affected that can be slow and complicated. This article describes a tool that aims to generate alerts when there are data about an epidemic, and notify all persons who could be exposed to contagion and prevent new infections occurs.