Epidemiology: Open Access
Open Access

Abstract

Two significant aspects of the management of an epidemics, pandemics and chronic diseases are ensuring that patients
comply with their prescribed treatment and close monitoring of symptoms of the public. Providing medical practitioners,
epidemiologists and disease controlers and patients with a mechanism that encourages treatment compliance and provides the
means to monitor symptoms in real or near-real time would not only facilitate better management of diseases, but would also reduce
the costs related to the diseases and reduce the spread of them. Such a mechanism is made available through the Daily Medical
Support (DMS) standard for communication that makes use of the RegPoint software module, a wireless disease management
system operating via mobile telephony. The concept, developed by the health services company RegPoint Ltd (www.RegPoint.eu),
is specially designed to monitor all kind of diseases.

Biography

Sophia Salenius is a Managing Director of RegPoint Ltd, a health services company supplying wireless technology to the global healthcare community. She is a leading
expert in the international IT healthcare field and a sought after guest speaker at professional conferences around the world. She is well known as the inventor behind the
unique mHealth solution for public health threat detection and management called RegPoint. Her invention is also used in a wireless early warning and advice solution for
natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes, as well as to combat public health threats including chronic diseases and epidemics such as SARS and
the Avian A flu.