NHSX must be ‘upfront’ about contact-tracing app, privacy group says
The app, developed by NHSX, is currently being trialled in the North of England. Digital Health News understands it is using Bluetooth to trace symptoms.
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The app, developed by NHSX, is currently being trialled in the North of England. Digital Health News understands it is using Bluetooth to trace symptoms.
The machine learning tool is designed to help hospitals predict how many patients need an ICU bed and how many require ventilators.
The trusts are to use Babylon’s app-based service to flag patients with potential coronavirus, as well as assist those who have been diagnosed.
It comes after NHS Digital published the UK SNOMED CT codes for Covid-19. The guidance will support central data collections to help manage the pandemic.
A Coronavirus Status Checker will be used to collect informationinform the NHS’s response to the virus, but it fails to take a person’s sex into account.
The platform connects the Government and other national organisations responsible for coordinating the UK’s response to “secure, reliable and timely data”.