Real-time Outbreak and Diseases Surveillance System(2010)

Real-time Outbreak and Diseases Surveillance System(2010)

More than 170 responsibility hospitals nationwide automatically transfer ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification Ninth Revision) coded diagnostic information of patients seen on an emergency basis to Taiwan CDC through the “Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance System (RODS)” for early and rapid analysis of diseases or syndromes. The construction of the RODS system aims to detect early possible outbreak of an infectious disease in the communities, and discern the trends of an epidemic and predict the prevalence of a disease. The reportable diseases under RODS included influenza-like illness, enterovirus infection and diarrhea in 2007. The reportable diseases in 2008 and 2010 include the routine surveillance of conjunctivitis in addition to the reportable items in 2007.