TY - JOUR AU - Lwin, May O. AU - Sheldenkar, Anita AU - Panchapakesan, Chitra AU - Ng, Janelle Shaina AU - Lau, Jerrald AU - Jayasundar, Karthikayen AU - Horathalge, Kasun AU - Rathnayake, Vajira Sampath AU - Crawley, Adam W. AU - Wimalaratne, Prasad PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/13 TI - Epihack Sri Lanka: development of a mobile surveillance tool for dengue fever JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 111 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Dengue is a serious problem around the globe, with 3.9 billion people at risk of the disease. Sri Lanka has recently seen unprecedented rates of dengue with 4.3 times more cases than during the same period over the previous six years. The paper discusses the development of an integrated health systems framework, aided by mobile technology, to combat and contain dengue via a health hackathon in Sri Lanka. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0829-5 DO - 10.1186/s12911-019-0829-5 ID - Lwin2019 ER -