TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pal Bhowmick, Ipsita
AU  - Chutia, Dibyajyoti
AU  - Chouhan, Avinash
AU  - Nishant, Nilay
AU  - Raju, P L N
AU  - Narain, Kanwar
AU  - Kaur, Harpreet
AU  - Pebam, Rocky
AU  - Debnath, Jayanta
AU  - Tripura, Rabindra
AU  - Gogoi, Kongkona
AU  - Ch Nag, Suman
AU  - Nath, Aatreyee
AU  - Tripathy, Debabrata
AU  - Debbarma, Jotish
AU  - Das, Nirapada
AU  - Sarkar, Ujjwal
AU  - Debbarma, Rislyn
AU  - Roy, Rajashree
AU  - Debnath, Bishal
AU  - Dasgupta, Dipanjan
AU  - Debbarma, Suraj
AU  - Joy Tripura, Kamal
AU  - Reang, Guneram
AU  - Sharma, Amit
AU  - Rahi, Manju
AU  - Chhibber-Goel, Jyoti
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/10
TI  - Validation of a Mobile Health Technology Platform (FeverTracker) for Malaria Surveillance in India: Development and Usability Study
JO  - JMIR Form Res
SP  - e28951
VL  - 5
IS  - 11
KW  - fever
KW  - health system
KW  - mHealth app
KW  - malaria
KW  - surveillance
KW  - mobile phone
AB  - Background: A surveillance system is the foundation for disease prevention and control. Malaria surveillance is crucial for tracking regional and temporal patterns in disease incidence, assisting in recorded details, timely reporting, and frequency of analysis. Objective: In this study, we aim to develop an integrated surveillance graphical app called FeverTracker, which has been designed to assist the community and health care workers in digital surveillance and thereby contribute toward malaria control and elimination. Methods: FeverTracker uses a geographic information system and is linked to a web app with automated data digitization, SMS text messaging, and advisory instructions, thereby allowing immediate notification of individual cases to district and state health authorities in real time. Results: The use of FeverTracker for malaria surveillance is evident, given the archaic paper-based surveillance tools used currently. The use of the app in 19 tribal villages of the Dhalai district in Tripura, India, assisted in the surveillance of 1880 suspected malaria patients and confirmed malaria infection in 93.4% (114/122; Plasmodium falciparum), 4.9% (6/122; P vivax), and 1.6% (2/122; P falciparum/P vivax mixed infection) of cases. Digital tools such as FeverTracker will be critical in integrating disease surveillance, and they offer instant data digitization for downstream processing. Conclusions: The use of this technology in health care and research will strengthen the ongoing efforts to eliminate malaria. Moreover, FeverTracker provides a modifiable template for deployment in other disease systems. 
SN  - 2561-326X
UR  - https://formative.jmir.org/2021/11/e28951
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/28951
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34757321
DO  - 10.2196/28951
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/28951
ER  -