A patient checks into a hospital with symptoms.

Once a case is reported, that information is logged into the healthcare system.

Patient is interviewed to discover who they came into contact with.

Meanwhile, software platforms like Maven use contact tracing to scan for possible links and commonalities in data.

Public health alerts are issued directly from software like Maven.

New cases are discovered and patients are quarantined.

As new cases are discovered and tracked, technologies like Maven are able to pull in even more data, enabling healthcare providers to see a more holistic view of the outbreak.

Cases are closed.

Cases are automatically closed using predetermined parameters, though data is not deleted.

Protocols and questionnaires are put in place.

From all of the data that is aggregated, Maven creates an algorithm that identi�es trends and builds a protocol guide for dealing with cases. These guides can be customized and adapted as the situation changes.

Maven uses built-in geo-coding that detects potential cases in the same area, looks at people with the same address, etc.

Disease surveillance software goes to work by:

How Technology HelpsPrevent an Ebola Outbreak

Software is updated on an ongoing basis, even before an outbreak.

Maven is also highly con�gurable so as protocols from the CDC, for exam-ple, change, so does the software.

Contact tracing recurs until the spread of the disease is stopped.

Collecting data from electronic medical records

Tracking over-the-counter medications purchases

Recording ER admissions

MAVEN AT WORKHighly communicable diseases like Ebola require a multifaceted approach to containment, protecting the population from further exposure. While hospitals do their part to quarantine patients, outbreak management systems with sophisticated contact tracing tools track patient zero and those exposed to patient zero. The data the system collects results in necessary quarantines and prevents the disease from spreading.

Here’s how software like Maven helps to stop an outbreak before it starts.

THE OUTBREAK IS CONTAINED.As contact tracing is put into practice, cases are caught, quarantined and

closed, slowing and eventually stopping the outbreak of the disease.

Where do the guides go?

Schools

Hospitals

Government agencies