NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app ‘delayed until June’
Health secretary Matt Hancock had previously said the app would be rolled out by mid-May, as had NHSX chief Matthew Gould.
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App provides on-the-spot mental health crisis support
A team of trained mental health professionals will offer direct video support to responders and patients in a bid to reduce unnecessary A&E attendances.
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Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’
Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were “serious issues” associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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Three Scottish trusts trial Covid-19 contact-tracing software
The pilot will allow the trusts to test the software, which will be used by contact tracers to collect the information they need digitally.
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Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app
If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor its use and deal with complaints.
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Digital Health Unplugged: May news team debrief
Join Andrea Downey, Hannah Crouch and Jon Hoeksma as they look at the whether the app will be successful and if NHSX has taken the right approach.
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Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’
It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government committee.
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Applications open for fifth cohort of DigitalHealth.London Accelerator
The DigitalHealth.London programme, now in its fifth year, aims to support start-ups looking to transform health and care, connecting them with NHS leaders.
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Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’
The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app based on self-reporting.
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Google Analytics trackers in contact-tracing app code ‘risks re-identification’
NHSX has always maintained the code for the contact-tracing app would be made publicly available, but currently only the front-end code has been published.
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