Outbreak Surveillance & Response Programme

Why it matters

Outbreak response depends on routine care noticing patterns early: symptoms, diagnoses, locations, contacts, tests, vaccinations, referrals, and reports. WHO surveillance and emergency-preparedness guidance emphasizes early detection, case definitions, contact tracing, reporting, and coordinated response.

InBasket AI keeps this programme pathway connected to one continuous patient record so a small care team can work from a single, trustworthy source of truth — part of expanding access to care for the next billion people.

Designed with reference to recognized global, national, and clinical standards

This care area is designed with reference to a standards ecosystem, including global guidance, national protocols, specialty-society recommendations, interoperability standards, and programme reporting requirements where applicable:

• WHO public health surveillance principles
• WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) surveillance principles
• Africa CDC / national emergency operations and event-based surveillance guidance where adopted
• National IDSR, case-definition, contact-tracing, vaccination-response, and reporting requirements
• National Ministry of Health standard treatment guidelines, essential medicines lists, and local scope-of-practice rules for the implementation setting
• HL7 FHIR, ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED CT, and local terminology/coding standards where adopted
• National programme registers, surveillance definitions, DHIS2 or equivalent reporting requirements, and donor-reporting mappings where adopted

Standards sources

These sources substantiate the standards named above. Implementation-specific national protocols are selected from official national or regional authorities during deployment.

1. [1]World Health Organization guidelines and publications
2. [2]Official national Ministry of Health protocols for the implementation setting — Implementation-specific: selected from the official national or regional authority during deployment.
3. [3]CDC clinical guidance
4. [4]CDC ACIP vaccine recommendations
5. [5]Africa CDC
6. [6]HL7 FHIR
7. [7]WHO ICD classifications
8. [8]LOINC
9. [9]SNOMED CT
10. [10]National programme registers, DHIS2 or equivalent reporting requirements — Implementation-specific programme registers and reporting rules are configured from official national systems where adopted.

Evidence sources

• WHO Health emergency preparedness