{"title":"Policy makers must adopt agile signal detection tools to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and improve pandemic preparedness","authors":"Cédric Mahé , Aimo Kannt , AIOLOS consortium","doi":"10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105386","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The SARS-COV2 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for agile and responsive disease surveillance systems. To strengthen epidemiological surveillance and improve pandemic preparedness, policymakers must adopt real-time signal detection tools that integrate multisource data, including non-traditional health data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Such approaches enable more efficient monitoring and decision-making through collaborative networks. Expanding these agile tools across Europe under a supranational mandate would enhance public health outcomes, support healthcare system efficiency, and increase business resilience. Leveraging private sector data and ensuring modularity for gradual scale-up are essential to maintaining adaptability and responsiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55067,"journal":{"name":"Health Policy","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 105386"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health Policy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851025001423","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The SARS-COV2 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for agile and responsive disease surveillance systems. To strengthen epidemiological surveillance and improve pandemic preparedness, policymakers must adopt real-time signal detection tools that integrate multisource data, including non-traditional health data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Such approaches enable more efficient monitoring and decision-making through collaborative networks. Expanding these agile tools across Europe under a supranational mandate would enhance public health outcomes, support healthcare system efficiency, and increase business resilience. Leveraging private sector data and ensuring modularity for gradual scale-up are essential to maintaining adaptability and responsiveness.
期刊介绍:
Health Policy is intended to be a vehicle for the exploration and discussion of health policy and health system issues and is aimed in particular at enhancing communication between health policy and system researchers, legislators, decision-makers and professionals concerned with developing, implementing, and analysing health policy, health systems and health care reforms, primarily in high-income countries outside the U.S.A.