title: Design and application of the emergency response mobile phone-based information system for infectious disease reporting in the Wenchuan earthquake zone.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the design and application of an emergency response mobile phone-based information system for infectious disease reporting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Software engineering and business modeling were used to design and develop the emergency response mobile phone-based information system for infectious disease reporting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven days after the initiation of the reporting system, the reporting rate in the earthquake zone reached the level of the same period in 2007, using the mobile phone-based information system. Surveillance of the weekly report on morbidity in the earthquake zone after the initiation of the mobile phone reporting system showed the same trend as the previous three years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The emergency response mobile phone-based information system for infectious disease reporting was an effective solution to transmit urgently needed reports and manage communicable disease surveillance information. This assured the consistency of disease surveillance and facilitated sensitive, accurate, and timely disease surveillance. It is an important backup for the internet-based direct reporting system for communicable disease.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information Services in the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China. majq@chinacdc.cn
authors.forename: Jiaqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Maigeng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yanfei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Xuemei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Xiaopeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ge
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055866:Earthquakes; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D011159:Population Surveillance