Issues Regarding the Implementation of eHealth: Preparing for Future Influenza Pandemics

Issues Regarding the Implementation of eHealth: Preparing for Future Influenza Pandemics

BACKGROUND eHealth is a tool that may be used to facilitate responses to influenza pandemics. Prior to implementation of eHealth in the hospital setting, assessment of the organizational preparedness is an important step in the planning process. Including this step may increase the chance of implementation success. OBJECTIVE To identify the preparedness issues in relation to implementation of...

Preparing for influenza epidemics and pandemics in the new millennium.

Predictions for future human influenza pandemics.

Will there be another human influenza pandemic? The certainty is that there will be, and the probability is that the virus will emerge from Eurasian aquatic bird reservoirs and involve reassortment between a human and avian strain, with accumulation of mutations or true recombinational events (or both) that will permit spread and pathogenicity among humans. This process will probably occur in p...

How integration of global omics-data could help preparing for pandemics – a scent of influenza

Pandemics caused by novel emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases could lead to high mortality and morbidity world-wide when left uncontrolled. In this perspective, we evaluate the possibility of integration of global omics-data in order to timely prepare for pandemics. Such an approach requires two major innovations. First, data that is obtained should be shared with the global community i...

Stockpiling Ventilators for Influenza Pandemics