EPI Pulse™ - Epidemiology Solution
EPI Pulse™ was originally developed to assist in combating the spread of the West Nile Virus. EPI Pulse™ offers local and state government an invaluable, GIS-based management tool, which can be used by public health and medical professionals, such as epidemiologists. With EPI Pulse™, these professionals can rapidly develop questionnaires or forms, customize the data entry process, enter and analyze data.
EPI Pulse™ accommodates geographically distributed decision-makers by:
- Creating an easy-to-use, Web-based environment for fast, self- service access to information
- Using the standard electronics maps of the county / local / state government to form a base
- Providing the functionality of a full-blown GIS package that is based on industry standard GIS (ESRI®-Map Objects)
- Exchanging data with permits and zoning software to create mail outs to certain areas / subdivisions, etc.
- Providing a scheduling ability for various ancillary purposes, such as grass cutting, trash and debris pickup
In the case of epidemiologists, the EPI Pulse™ system serves as a central collection point for epidemiology information for reporting to local, state and federal health organizations. This unique attribute of the system makes the information instantly available to all health agencies and facilitates informed decisions by using the latest, demographic information. The EPI Pulse™ system’s incident command and control capabilities provide police, fire, emergency managers, response teams, local government agencies, hospitals and health departments a central location for the collection and coordination of information pertaining to any bio-incident, a valuable asset both prior to and during an incident. Epidemiological statistics, tables, graphs, and maps can be easily produced by using simple commands, such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP.
We invite you to consider the following features and advantages of the EPI Pulse™ system:
- Savings in time and money: Provides commercial, off-the-shelf data warehouse at a reasonable cost. Obtain results in seconds or minutes
- Easy Access: Connects users by web browser, telnet (Internet), modem, local area network, or stand-alone PC.
- Powerful: Allows in-depth analyses.
- Easy to Use: Requires little computer experience. Customizable menu system makes selections easy. On-line help and advice. No programming experience needed.
- Flexible: Produces a wide variety of tables. Settings may be chosen/combined as needed. Output easily exported to tab- delimited or Microsoft® Excel, or as a series of HTML files. EPI Pulse™ is at your command to carry out your analytic wishes!
- Efficient: Creates a whole series of tables with one keystroke. Bar graphs can be quickly scanned for trends.
Other Benefits and Features:
- Extensibility to allow organizations to integrate additional modules
- An ArcView®-compatible GIS
- Logistic regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis
- Double data entry comparison through Data Compare
- Password protection, encryption, and compression of data
- Analysis and import of other file types
