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Category: Covid-19

News about Covid-19 and digital health.

UK NHS Switches to Google/Apple Contact Tracing App

June 19, 2020 Admin Leave a comment

The UK government has announced that is it changing direction of the development of its contact-tracing app. NHSX, the NHS’s digital innovation agency, has been developing a contact-tracing app that used its own technology rather than the platform developed by Apple and Google through a new collaboration specifically to help

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Apple and Google release Covid-19 contact-tracing update to iOS and Android

May 22, 2020 Admin Leave a comment

Public health agencies that have developed contract-tracing apps can now use the first component of the Apple-Google contact tracing API called “Exposure Notifications” following an update to the iOS and Android operating systems. Read the full joint statement on Exposure Notifications below: “One of the most effective techniques that public

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Health Informatics and COVID-19: The Digital Transformation of Healthcare

May 19, 2020 Admin One comment
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a massive shift to the adoption of digital health technologies such as telemedicine consultations and digital health apps for patients to track their COVID-19 symptoms and trace contacts. As the pandemic subsides, we will enter a “new normal” of teleconsultations as the primary means

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