Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence
mHealth
Colorado Mobile Health Project
Typically conducted by phone, routine enteric disease case interviews are critical for foodborne illness surveillance, outbreak detection, and disease control. However, an increasing case load, along with the increased use of mobile telephones, has made case interviews more challenging to complete. For this reason, the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (CO CoE) developed and evaluated the Colorado Mobile Health (mHealth) Project using online surveys to supplement routine telephone-based enteric disease case investigations.
• For surge capacity
• Supplement phone interviews
• Alternative for cases who do not answer the phone or don’t have time
• If phone is not an option
• Lower priority pathogens that are less likely to be associated with an outbreak
• If your agency has the time or resources to do the interview by phone
• If a case works as a foodhandler or healthcare worker, or if a cases is a childcare worker or attendee
• If a case is suspected to be part of a cluster or outbreak investigation
• If a case is unwilling to do an interview online, or if they do not have access to internet
• If a lot of education is necessary
• Higher priority pathogens that are more likely to be associated with an outbreak
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