title: Managing knowledge integration in a national health-care crisis: lessons learned from combating SARS in Singapore.
abstract: The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is the first severe and readily transmissible disease to emerge in the 21st century. Often one new infection meant tracing of several people to monitor their health conditions as well. In Singapore, several agencies coordinated their efforts to quickly bring the outbreak under control. The current breed of health-care information systems (HCIS) was not sufficient to handle new information-sharing needs during the crisis. In this paper, we take a look at the measures taken during the crisis in Singapore through a knowledge integration perspective. This perspective reveals interesting implications for HCIS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 17543, Singapore . paulraj@nus.edu.sg
authors.forename: Paul Raj
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Devadoss
authors.forename: Shan Ling
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Shreyan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D019090:Case Management; D016358:Contact Tracing; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D012846:Singapore; D018511:Systems Integration