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Amid COVID-19, a new 1,000-person survey suggests high demand for remote health services.
Governments are finding technology-based tracking is helping in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but when does it cross the line into problematic surveillance?
The two tech giants' unprecedented partnership looks to engage as many users in disease-tracing and prevention efforts as possible while tearing down the data silos of their respective smartphone platforms.
The in-development system foregoes GPS tracking and other identifying data collection methods in its effort to automate labor-intensive COVID-19 contact tracing.
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Also, tech-enabled home care provider Cera has concluded research into the performance of AI in comparison to human clinicians.
Also: FDA COVID-19 policy allows for remote use, digital modifications to ophthalmic devices; 23andMe launches genetics study to understand varying COVID-19 responses.
Spearheaded by the Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA), the new wristbands are part of the government’s effort in quickly tracing new cases of COVID-19, as well as keeping track of active cases.
The company will use the money to increase its European presence.
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Vasileios Nittas, an epidemiologist from the University of Zurich, explains the importance of technology in the middle of a pandemic.
The anonymized, aggregated GPS data is collected from mobile devices that have opted into location-tracking services.