My presentation on "Monitoring the Spreading of Infectious Diseases in Finland". 2010. by Markku Laine, http://www.tinyurl.com/mplaine

1. Monitoring the Spreading of
Infectious Diseases in Finland
Assignment Presentation
December 8, 2010
Markku Laine
markku.laine@gmail.com

2. Presentation Outline
• Introduction
• Problem Statement
• Application Description
• Conclusions

3. Introduction
Infectious Diseases in Finland
The Procedure

4. Infectious Diseases in Finland
• Infectious disease
– A clinically evident illnesses caused by a microorganism, such
as viruses, bacteria, and fungi
– Transmitted through liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated
objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector-borne spread
• National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, in
Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos)
– Reports, monitors, and prevents the spreading of infectious
diseases in Finland
– Maintains Infectious Diseases Register (IDR)

5. The Procedure
Day 1:
First Day 3:
symptoms Consults a Day 4-7:
 google doctor Diagnosis
Day 2: Day 4: Day ~14:
Sick at Analysis THL’s
home of the Infectious
samples Diseases
Register is
updated

6. Problem Statement
Problems with the Procedure and THL’s Infectious
Diseases Register

7. Problems with the Procedure and THL’s
Infectious Diseases Register
• No forecast
• A series of analyses
needs to be performed Not useful for
• Data laboratory
– Not accurate enough personnel,
– HTML tables doctors,
– Not linked patients, etc.
– Reporting lag of two
weeks

8. Application Description
Overview
User Interface
Architecture

9. Overview
• An application for monitoring the spreading (current
status, history, and forecast) of infectious diseases in
Finland
• Provides more accurate, linked, and real-time data
about various infectious diseases in Finland
• Presents the data in a nicely visualized and human-
understandable form (interactive map)
• Provides accurate estimate of the current level of
various infectious diseases (based on Google search
queries)

10. User Interface

11. Architecture

12. Conclusions
Benefits

13. Benefits
• For laboratory personnel
– Fewer analyses of the samples to be performed
• For doctors
– More accurate diagnosis
• For health district
– Saves time and money
• For patients
– Faster recovery