Pandemic Flu & Uber Operations April 27, 2009
Posted by gonzalezloumiet in Florida, PHLIP, Pandemic Flu, Texas.trackback
UPDATE, Audio File of presentation at the CDC PHIN 2009 Conference: http://cdc.confex.com/cdc/phin2009/webprogram/Paper20928.html
Over the past few months, several team members from Uber Operations have been working on the Pandemic Flu Grant (pilot project) with the Florida Department of Health, Texas Department of State Health Services (including Mexico) and the CDC.
The main objective of the Grant is to achieve electronic data exchange interoperability between states, including sharing influenza surveillance laboratory test orders and results. The goal is to be better equipped to prevent or delay the spread of influenza and other illnesses, as well as dramatically improve potential surge capacities for situations such as H1N1(Swine) flu.
The recent deaths with the H1N1(Swine) flu outbreak show how important projects like the one above are and how technology can facilitate the surveillance and response.
[...] Swine Flu Outbreak Revives Controversy Over Stimulus Funds April 28, 2009 Posted by gonzalezloumiet in Department of Health and Human Services, Swine Flu. trackback Note: Uber Operations has been involved in a Pan Flu Grant sponsored by the CDC, APHL, FDOH, and TDSHS. [...]
[...] (Also, the BOL and FDOH in coordination with the CDC, TDSHS, and APHL are working on a pilot project… [...]
[...] Until the mailing of anthrax spores to politicians and media figures in the weeks following 9/11, the threat of either bioterrorism or pandemic flu were ignored and those who tried to raise the issue dismissed as alarmists. Was the world in any greater danger of either natural pandemic or bioterrorism after 9/11 than before? Absolutely not. Did that scare make us more ready? Indeed it did. For the first time in more than 40 years, since the end of the terrifying polio epidemics, federal, state and local governments started assessing and rebuilding their almost nonexistent public health infrastructures. Today, almost every business, school and government agency has a pandemic flu plan, yet the infrastructure to address a true pandemic doesn’t exist. (See article on Uber Operations and the Pan Flu Project) [...]
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