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Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications
We discuss the concept of a participatory digital contact notification approach to assist tracing of contacts who are exposed to confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19); the approach is simple and affordable for countries with limited access to health care resources and advanced technology...
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JMIR Publications
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32501802 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20369 |
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author | Cheng, Weibin Hao, Chun |
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description | We discuss the concept of a participatory digital contact notification approach to assist tracing of contacts who are exposed to confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19); the approach is simple and affordable for countries with limited access to health care resources and advanced technology. The proposed tool serves as a supplemental contract tracing approach to counteract the shortage of health care staff while providing privacy protection for both cases and contacts. This tool can be deployed on the internet or as a plugin for a smartphone app. Confirmed cases with COVID-19 can use this tool to provide contact information (either email addresses or mobile phone numbers) of close contacts. The system will then automatically send a message to the contacts informing them of their contact status, what this status means, the actions that should follow (eg, self-quarantine, respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette), and advice for receiving early care if they develop symptoms. The name of the sender of the notification message by email or mobile phone can be anonymous or not. The message received by the contact contains no disease information but contains a security code for the contact to log on the platform to retrieve the information. |
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spelling | pubmed-73094472020-08-17 Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications Cheng, Weibin Hao, Chun JMIR Mhealth Uhealth Viewpoint We discuss the concept of a participatory digital contact notification approach to assist tracing of contacts who are exposed to confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19); the approach is simple and affordable for countries with limited access to health care resources and advanced technology. The proposed tool serves as a supplemental contract tracing approach to counteract the shortage of health care staff while providing privacy protection for both cases and contacts. This tool can be deployed on the internet or as a plugin for a smartphone app. Confirmed cases with COVID-19 can use this tool to provide contact information (either email addresses or mobile phone numbers) of close contacts. The system will then automatically send a message to the contacts informing them of their contact status, what this status means, the actions that should follow (eg, self-quarantine, respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette), and advice for receiving early care if they develop symptoms. The name of the sender of the notification message by email or mobile phone can be anonymous or not. The message received by the contact contains no disease information but contains a security code for the contact to log on the platform to retrieve the information. JMIR Publications 2020-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7309447/ /pubmed/32501802 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20369 Text en ©Weibin Cheng, Chun Hao. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 22.06.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mhealth.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Cheng, Weibin Hao, Chun Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications |
title | Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications |
title_full | Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications |
title_fullStr | Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications |
title_full_unstemmed | Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications |
title_short | Case-Initiated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Anonymous Notifications |
title_sort | case-initiated covid-19 contact tracing using anonymous notifications |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32501802 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20369 |
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