Converting the existing disease surveillance from a paper-based to an electronic-based system using district health information system (DHIS-2) for real-time information: the Lebanese experience

• Main Authors: Dalal Youssef (Author), Ayat Yaghi (Author), Abbas Jouny (Author), Linda Abou-Abbas (Author), Houssam Chammaa (Author), Nada Ghosn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction The Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon is in the process of converting the surveillance reporting from a cumbersome paper-based system to a web-based electronic platform (DHIS-2) to have real-time information for early detection of alerts and outbreaks and for initiating a pr...