title: Epidemiological surveillance using information technologies in Paraguay.
abstract: This article presents the early work on a project in Paraguay for epidemiological surveillance using information technologies. This project is a response of our university to a governmental request to establish links of cooperation and development between academic public sectors of Spain and Paraguay. The overall project objective is the promotion ofa healthy citizenry through the application of information and communication technologies to the monitoring of populations vulnerable to febrile syndromes (FS). The goal of this project is to create the infrastructure that will allow the population of the country to easily communicate with health centers and provide information on cases of FS. The telephone network will be the main physical support for this communication. The project was formally initiated in January 2009 with the implementation of the prototype system. During the first half of 2010, the pilot project will be implemented in Asunción, Paraguay.
authors.affiliation: Escuela Superior de Ingeniera of Bilbao, Spain. xabier.basogain@ehu.es
authors.forename: Xabier Basogain
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Olabe
authors.forename: Virgilio Cane
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: León
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Galvan
authors.forename: Margarita Brizuela
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: de Cabral
authors.forename: Miguel Angel Olabe
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Basogain
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gomez-Solaetxe
authors.forename: Juan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Larrabe
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D010239:Paraguay / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*