Episode 50 - Carlos Carvalho - The Power of Digital Health Data

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

For today's episode we sit down with Carlos Carvalho - ECDC's Principal Expert in Digital Surveillance to talk about the state of play of making the public health data flow up to speed in the third decade of the XXI-st century and usable for modern surveillance of infectious diseases.

How far are we in creating the fully digital health data system in Europe, enabling us to track infectious diseases faster? What are the hurdles we still need to jump over? Listen to our podcast and find out!

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0:00.0	ECDC On Air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:08.5	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.
0:14.6	Good morning and welcome to ECDC on Air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention
0:19.9	and Control.
0:26.4	My name is Catherine and today I'm your host for this podcast, recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
0:28.5	In this episode, we are going to talk about infectious disease surveillance and monitoring.
0:33.8	To carry out this activity, ECDC collects, analyses and disseminates surveillance data
0:40.3	on 56 communicable diseases and related health issues.
0:45.3	One of our previous podcast entitled DECD data hub describes in detail this surveillance activity,
0:53.3	the type of data involved, where it comes
0:56.1	from and how ECDC uses and share it back.
1:00.0	ECDC is now looking to help countries improve their surveillance systems and therefore the
1:05.4	surveillance of infectious disease at European level.
1:08.4	By using clinical health data, data that are already present in countries' health information
1:15.1	systems.
1:16.6	What is this data?
1:18.2	How will it help to improve the surveillance and control of infectious disease at
1:22.3	European level?
1:24.0	These are the themes of our discussion.
1:41.0	Thank you. These are the themes of our discussion. With us today, we have Carlos Carvayou, who works at ECDC as an expert in digital surveillance.
1:47.8	Good morning, Carlos.
1:49.1	Good morning, Catherine.
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