Acer e-Enabling Service Helps Taiwan's CDC Build “THAS” Surveillance System For Infection And Antimicrobial Resistance

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Winner of WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards in COVID-19 Best Industry Solutions category

Acer e-Enabling Service Business Inc. (AEB) was bestowed with the Global ICT Excellence Award - COVID-19 Best Industry Solution by WITSA (World Information Technology and Service Alliance) for the THAS system (Taiwan Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System) it built for Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The COVID-19 Best Industry Solution recognizes organizations or individuals who successfully leverage information and communications technology to make significant contributions in the fight against the coronavirus.

THAS provides the government as well as medical staff and professionals with a real-time data platform to monitor the occurrence of epidemic infections in medical institutions. It not only collects nationwide antibiotic resistance data in order to provide valuable basis for formulating policies on infection and antibiotic control, but also employs data analytics to enable hospital administrators to deploy in-hospital infection prevention measures early on.

"THAS was completed in November 2019, not long before COVID-19 hit the world in early 2020. THAS immediately played its role in this challenging time by offering a synergistic approach to pandemic prevention," said #sandychou, President of AEB. "AEB stood out from the 129 nominations to be awarded COVID-19 Best Industry Solutions. This is the highest form of encouragement to us in our effort to apply technology in pandemic prevention, and it also affirms Taiwan's outstanding achievements in keeping COVID-19 under control."

As the island-wide monitoring platform, THAS has already been successfully linked to more than 600 major medical institutions in Taiwan, amounting to a 90% coverage rate. More than 1,400 medical professionals have used the platform to gather information about infection cases, review reports about antibiotic resistance, and to monitor and analyze cases of infection. The data from THAS is one of the sources of information used in the daily case reports for COVID-19 by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).  The homepage’s graphical dashboard presents key information, such as the distribution of infection sources, infection trends and ranking of infection strains, in an easily-digestible fashion. When a medical team needs to conduct further analysis, THAS also provides international index data for benchmarking to help hospital administrators grasp the status of infections and antibiotic resistance in their hospitals. This better enables them to take critical preventative steps even before an unknown outbreak occurs, serving as a crucial cornerstone in safeguarding the integrity of Taiwan's healthcare system.