Q-Alert: Surveillance System for Foreign Passengers

Abstract

This research aimed to reduce the working time of the officers who perform surveillance for dangerous communicable diseases at international communicable disease control checkpoint and develop a surveillance system for the following 3 dangerous communicable diseases: coronavirus (a 2019 infectious disease), yellow fever, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at the border checkpoint, Office of Disease Prevention and Control, 12 Songkhla. Data were collected by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the existing system and interviewing practitioners and executives., A new working system was designed with the use of technology to assist in the operation, system testing, trial, and operation training. The results revealed that: (1) paper is used for data collection and recording. The executive is not able to use the data for resource planning, lack of integrity and accuracy, it takes a long time, congestion occurs, the risk of spreading infection increases, and the workload of historical data recording increases (2) The researchers have developed a surveillance system for dangerous communicable diseases by programming through the web application and mobile application. Moreover, there are analyze and summarize in 3 aspects as followed: (1) Effectiveness of the data: there is real-time data reporting and a notification system for PUI patients via line group, allowing immediate preparation. (2) Reduce the staff’s workload  (3)Reduce risk of infection. In addition, the new system reduces the exposure of documents and saves time due to the recording of T.8 (ต.8) data in advance. Lastly, there is a QR code that helps save the data.