A GIS application for disease monitoring based on ICD report-system

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is an international standard diagnostic tool published by WHO in the field of epidemiology, healthcare management, and clinical purposes. It is required by WHO that all... [ view full abstract ]

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is an international standard diagnostic tool published by WHO in the field of epidemiology, healthcare management, and clinical purposes. It is required by WHO that all inpatients’ diagnosis should be reported to local WHO organisations in ICD codes for mortality and morbidity statistics. This paper suggests a web-based intelligent system which can translate the clinical diagnosis into ICD codes via Natural Language Processing module and matching algorithm, then collect these ICD codes for related organisations, and finally display the information on GIS. This system is a flexible schema matching software that would allow for the ICD database to be linked to the GIS database, so that it realises the dynamic monitoring of diseases in the specified area, or supports the data analytics of ethnicity, environmental factors, life behaviours and etc. This application could be helpful for local healthcare departments to monitor and control the eruption of large-scale pandemic, especially by combining with Big-data analysis techniques.