EPISODE · Apr 10, 2020 · 25 MIN
Tracking, Tracing, Privacy and COVID-19
from HIMSSCast · host HIMSS Media
Even before today's big announcement from Apple and Google, it was clear that phone-based contact tracking was going to be an important weapon in the war against COVID-19. But might that weapon be a double-edged sword? In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by the MobiHealthNews team — Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio, to discuss the various companies, researchers, and governments working on COVID-19 contact tracking and population mapping, and what privacy concerns that may entail.Articles mentioned in this podcast:Apple, Google have teamed up to build system-level COVID-19 contact tracing, interoperable APIs for iOS, AndroidChinese government releases public app to gauge potential coronavirus exposuresBahrain launches electronic bracelets to keep track of active COVID-19 casesFacebook rolls out three new COVID-19 related health tracking mapsGoogle mobilizes location tracking data to help public health experts monitor COVID-19 spreadUS military going on deployment told to leave wearable trackers at home (from 2018)MIT's COVID-19 app uses smartphones' Bluetooth to anonymously spot disease contacts
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Even before today's big announcement from Apple and Google, it was clear that phone-based contact tracking was going to be an important weapon in the war against COVID-19. But might that weapon be a double-edged sword? In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by the MobiHealthNews team — Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio, to discuss the various companies, researchers, and governments working on COVID-19 contact tracking and population mapping, and what pr...
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