Farag Azzedin, Jaweed Yazdani, Salahadin Adam and Mustafa Ghaleb, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Disease outbreak detection, monitoring and notification systems play an important role in assessing threats to public health since disease outbreaks are becoming increasingly common world-wide. There are several systems in use around the world, with coverage of national, international and global disease outbreaks. These systems use different taxonomies and classifications for the detection and prioritization of potential disease outbreaks. In this paper, we study and analyze the current disease outbreak systems. Subsequently, we extract features and functions of typical and generic disease outbreak systems. We then propose a generic model for disease outbreak notification systems. Our effort is directed towards standardizing the design process for typical disease outbreak systems.

Disease Outbreak Notification System, Taxonomy, Modeling, Health Systems. ETL, Databases