Implementing Interoperability of Antimicrobial Resistance System


Topic: Implementing Interoperability of Antimicrobial Resistance System

This topic was discussed in the open spaces and the topic’s owner was Mauro Tubin. It was quite an interactive session.  The importance of Implementing an Interoperable Antimicrobial Resistance system was discussed, how they were getting about with it and the challenges they face.


Accurate estimates of the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are needed to establish the magnitude of this global threat in terms of both health and cost, and to paramaterise cost-effectiveness evaluations of interventions aiming to tackle the problem.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism to stop an antimicrobial from working against it. As a result, standard treatments become ineffective, infections persist and may spread to others.

There should be a surveillance to get the specific data. The data needs to be mobilized regarding patients (testing and diagnostics), animals and food chains. The issue of paltry injected with antibiotics needs to be considered. The over prescription/ unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics also lead to several issues pertaining to microbial resistance.
The laboratories need to be strengthened- the way the patients are tested and treated.

WHOnet- collecting specific data, for example the number of patients who are given treatment without testing. This is also a main input to the Interoperability of AMR. The data from WHOnet could be coordinated with DHIS 2 platforms.

A real time platform is also needed to implement the interoperability of the AMR, so that everyone will be aware in real time, of when and where the AMR is noted in a strain, which will update everyone about the disease pattern.

Visualization of the drug management is used in Medical supplies chain, to get an overall idea of how antibiotics are used, about the stock availability and to overcome over-prescription of Antibiotics.

There’s an ongoing project in Vietnam related to Implementation of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) system.

Dr. Shakira Irfaan

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