Infonaut and OAHPP at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thanks to the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP), representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now have a better understanding of Ontario’s approach in the fight to control, and ultimately eliminate, the spread of Tuberculosis (TB).
At the CDC’s 2009 National TB Conference, “TB Elimination – It Takes a Village”, held June 15th – 19th, the OAHPP was invited to present their approach and solution.
Dr. Frances Jamieson, a Medical Microbiologist with the OAHPP, presented OUT-TB Web (which uses Infonaut’s Region Watch Live technology) to an audience of CDC and TB control professionals — ranging from local field staff to state-level decision makers.
Dr. Jamieson’s presentation demonstrated to a healthcare industry audience how OUT-TB Web works on the ground as an extensible, data-standardizing tool built to assist public health professionals in controlling the spread of infection, starting with TB.
The OAHPP and Infonaut are working together on solutions that move TB testing and information sharing from manual, time-intensive and reactive, to a new proactive approach that’s built on advanced real-time monitoring, rapid data comparison, and solution sharing.
Dr. Jamieson: “The CDC epidemiologists and laboratory experts at the presentation were very keen to hear about the OAHPP’s OUT-TB Web programme, as the CDC is embarking on a web-based enhancement of their national surveillance programme. The GIS component of the OUT-TB Web programme generated much discussion and interest, and we will continue to communicate with the CDC to ‘compare notes’ as we move forward with the implementation of OUT-TB Web”
Watch a demonstration of the Region Watch Live (RWL) technology on our site, and if you’d like to know more about Region Watch Live, please contact us.
About OAHPP
The Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP) is an arm’s-length government agency dedicated to protecting and promoting the health of all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. As a hub organization, OAHPP links public health practitioners, front-line health workers and researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge from around the world.
OAHPP provides expert scientific and technical support relating to infection prevention and control; surveillance and epidemiology; health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental and occupational health; health emergency preparedness; and public health laboratory services to support health providers, the public health system and partner ministries in making informed decisions and taking informed action to improve the health and security of Ontarians. For more information about OAHPP, visit www.oahpp.ca.
