INTEGRATED DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

“It has never been clearer than today that a secure, healthy future for us all depends on the co-operation across borders and between institutions,“ Brundtland told the opening session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

One of the worst hit areas in the world for SARS was Toronto, where over 40 persons have died from this respiratory disease. It was reported in the Toronto Star on June 14, 2003, under the heading “How experts untangled threads of second outbreak”, that “For most of the two outbreaks, they have sifted through paperwork by hand. “We’ve been fighting a nineteenth century type of disease with nineteenth century technology,“ said one official.

New [non-manual] surveillance systems are required and Heron Technology has had a solution in place for the past several years in Jamaica. Known as the JISS (Jamaica Injury Surveillance System), this component of Heron's PAS is capable of gathering data for any disease or injury.

"the JISS/PAS is, to the best of my knowledge, the first, and probably still the only, fully computerized, wide-area networked national surveillance system in the western hemisphere." Yvette Holder, CDC

The Heron PAS was positively reviewed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). For full details, click here to read the press release. For more information on the CDC's evaluation of the system, click here.

To download a PDF version of our Surveillance brochure, click here.

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Other components of the Heron PAS include:

Integrated Disease Surveillance | Central Patient Index | Emergency Patient Information
Health Records Abstracting | Admitting/Discharge/Transfer | Ambulatory Care

Patient Administration | Diagnostic Imaging