SAMS Epidemiological Wizard (EPIWIZ) User's Guide
Abstract
Medical surveillance is a critical component of force health protection and is a key factor in maintaining a high state of operational readiness. Naval personnel, such as hospital corpsmen, doctors, epidemiologists, conducting surveillance need up-to-date information regarding disease and injury trends. Aboard Navy ships, these critical medical data are entered into the Shipboard Non-Tactical ADP Program (SNAP) Automated Medical System (SAMS) database. The primary objective of this project is to enhance the medical surveillance capability of SAMS by providing easy access to this information in order to monitor trends, prevent diseases, facilitate reporting, and enhance medical outcomes. Researchers at Naval Health Research Center have developed Epidemiological Wizard (EPIWIZ), a computer program that acts as a technology bridge by extracting data residing in SAMS and transferring these data into Microsoft Excel(registered) software for analysis. EPIWIZ allows the user to generate summary reports used for detecting illness/injury trends. Furthermore, this clinical data analysis tools does not demand any new data entry requirements from the hospital corpsmen since EPIWIZ uses the same information collected during medical examinations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 12, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA400379
Entities
People
- Dianna Pearsall
- Hoa Ly
- Tamara Trank
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center