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Epidemic Location Intelligence System as Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Version 1 : Received: 16 July 2021 / Approved: 19 July 2021 / Online: 19 July 2021 (08:42:06 CEST)

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Karabegovic, A.; Ponjavic, M.; Hukic, M. Epidemic Location Intelligence System as Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Appl. Syst. Innov. 2021, 4, 79. Karabegovic, A.; Ponjavic, M.; Hukic, M. Epidemic Location Intelligence System as Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Appl. Syst. Innov. 2021, 4, 79.

Abstract

The outbreak of COVID-19 is a public health emergency that caused disastrous results in many countries. The global aim is to stop transmission and prevent the spread of the disease. To achieve it, every country needs to scale up emergency response mechanisms, educate and actively communicate with the public, intensify infected case finding, contact tracing, monitoring, quarantine of contacts, and isolation of cases. Responding to an emergency requires efficient collaboration and a multi-skilled approach (medical, information, statistical, political, social, and other expertise), which makes it hard to define one interface for all. As actors from different perspectives and domain backgrounds need to address diverse functions, the possibility to exchange available information quickly would be desirable. Geoportal provides an entry point to access a variety of data (geospatial data, epidemiological data) and could be used for data discovery, view, download, and transformation. It helps to deal with challenges like data analysis, confirmed cases geocoding, recognition of disease dynamics, vulnerable groups identification, and capacity mapping. Predicting and modeling the spread of infection, along with application support for communication and collaboration, are the biggest challenges. In response to all these challenges, we have established the Epidemic Location Intelligence System (ELIS) using open-source software components in the cloud, as a working platform with all the required functionalities.

Keywords

geoportal; location intelligence; geospatial data; emergency response; health expert system; decision support system

Subject

Engineering, Automotive Engineering

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