SurvNet
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The German Infectious Disease Surveillance Network Infectious disease surveillance is very important for outbreak investigations and health service planning, not to mention the all important war against (bio)-terrorism. Since 2001, a federal law has required the German "Länder" (States) to collect information on selected infectious diseases like Salmonella, Influenza, Anthrax etc. With surveillance systems already established in many European countries for decades, Germany had to catch up quickly and did manage surprisingly well to implement a good solution ( <-- author’s view): the infectious disease surveillance network called "SurvNet".Strictly speaking it is not a computer network but more a decentralised data collection by the local health authorities at the county district. Data are first aggregated at the “Länder� (state) level and then at the federal level.I would like give a quick overview about the way things are organised, how information flows through the system and especially what wonderful things you can do with such data. In a rare display of transparency in the country of the “Amtsgeheimnis� (official secret), all (anonymised) data are available on the web: week (2001-2005), local district, sex, age, infectious disease.So should you ever feel the urge to find out the German district with the highest incidence of “Salmonella Amsterdam�, this talk is for you.
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