In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, MDH and CDC we facilitated the development and improvement of Tanzania’s comprehensive eIDSR suite using different technologies and approaches. Amongst subsystems include a USSD mobile app that is integrated with DHIS2 to facilitate the direct reporting of immediately notifiable diseases and the weekly aggregate number of cases and deaths of IDSR priority diseases from health facilities. The eIDSR Android application is another subsystem used for data analysis and reporting directly to the DHIS2-HMIS system hosted via mobile networks—Other system components within the eIDSR data reporting include the following.
- Indicator Based Surveillance (eIBS) System: which supports reporting immediately reportable diseases, conditions, public health events of international concerns and Weekly aggregate number of cases and deaths of priority diseases from health facilities
- Event-Based Surveillance (eEBS) System: which supports reporting unusual health events that could be a serious risk to public health occuring in Community, Health Facilities, Point of Entries, Media, Call centers etc
- Outbreak Management System (OMS): manages reporting of the outbreak diseases that needs follow ups
eIDSR suite above has been successfully deployed and is currently helping the public health officials in Tanzania to rapidly identify problems and quickly respond by containing and preventing the disease
