Contact Tracing Covid-19 cases: R Shiny App available for download

[brian (Brian O'Donnell)]

UPDATE: HISP Sri Lanka and HISP Oslo have developed a DHIS2 app to model the generic relationships between tracked entity instances.

DHIS2 Relationship Tracing App

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems around the globe in the first half of 2020 with its rapid spread across countries, affecting the lives and health of millions of people worldwide. Health authorities require rapid public health measures to contain the disease and reduce its negative impact. Quality health information has become the key to this entire process. Sri Lanka was one of the first countries to adopt DHIS2 for COVID-19 surveillance in the world. In the proc…

Since this is a generic DHIS2 app, you do not need to host a separate R Shiny app, or use metadata from the Covid-19 metadata package, to visualize the relationship networks in your DHIS2 instance. Simply install the app into your DHIS2 system as described in Pamod’s post above.