Project Details


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National COVID-19 Integrated Information System


Description

"National COVID-19 Integrated Information System represents a software support for performing epidemiological surveillance related to the COVID-19. The system enables registration of all persons tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the entire territory of Serbia.
It enables aggregation of data from the official records kept by healthcare institutions in which persons suffering from COVID-19 are hospitalized and data from the institutes of public health and laboratories that perform testing and enter data into the system. Data are kept at the level of one or more local self-government units, in accordance with the territories of local and regional institutes for public health. Tested persons can also receive a confirmation of the test results in electronic form by e-mail.
The Institute of Public Health has to submit data on a daily basis, until 2 pm for the previous 24 hours to the Ministry of Health, as well as anonymized data to the Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment that publishes them as open data. The application is designed to support automated data submission to the abovementioned authorities, as well as to the self-isolation software of the Ministry of Interior used for supervising the implementation of the imposed home-isolation measures."

Project website

https://covid19.rs/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-government
  • AL C7. E-health 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 4: Quality education

Coverage
  • Serbia

Status

Ongoing

Start date

March 2020

End date

Not set


Replicability

National COVID-19 Integrated Information System is highly replicable, since, during the COVID-19 outbreak most countries have to ensure inter-institutional and cross-sectorial collaboration, information-sharing, aggregation of data and automated reports generation/data provision on a regular basis.


Sustainability

"Solutions implemented during the first wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak remain active, and will certainly continue to serve Serbian administration and healthcare system until the end of the pandemic. As for now, there is no vaccine to treat coronavirus disease, therefore we do not know for how long will we have to stay alert, will there be a second wave and for how long will we remain threatened by COVID-19.
In any case, the National COVID-19 Integrated Information System has proven to be an excellent tool for cross-sectoral and inter-institutional data sharing and reuse, and with some modifications, it can be used for other purposes as well."


WSIS values promotion

ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government, ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health, Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all


Entity name

Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment of the Government of Serbia

Entity country—type

Serbia Government

Entity website

https://ite.gov.rs

Partners

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