Utilizing Technology to Enhance Screening for Highly Infectious Diseases
2020
• Digital survey applications can be used to create highly infectious disease screening tools • Digital screening tools simplify patient screening for non-clinical staff at facility entrances • Digital screening tools can be monitored remotely to assist with compliance Quick identification and isolation of patients with highly infectious diseases is extremely important in healthcare settings today. This study focused on the creation of a digital screening tool using a free and publicly available digital survey application to screen patients during a measles outbreak in New York City. The results indicate that digital tools are an effective alternative to paper tools due to their ease of use and remote compliance monitoring capabilities.
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