Chelsea and Westminster launch Acute Covid app for NHS staff
An app which supports NHS staff redeployed to care for Covid patients has been launched by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’
Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’
Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data will be used by the app.
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NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’
Apple and Google’s APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing app.
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Covid-19 tracking tool appears on smartphones – but it’s not an app
The new exposure notification settings are part of an update to the operating systems, which will enable an app to run in the background.
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Government abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google’s tech
A parallel version of the NHS contact-tracing app using Apple and Google’s technology had been in the pipeline since early May.
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Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out
The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too slow.
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‘Apparent failure’ of contact-tracing app hinders test and trace system
A report criticised the government’s decision to develop a centralised contact-tracing model, raising concerns about “confidentiality and security of data”.
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Contact-tracing app data ‘could feed into NHS Covid-19 data store’
The data protection impact assessment on the store, managed by Palantir, provides a look at how data will inform the response to the pandemic.
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Recovering Covid-19 patients given devices to spot dips in oxygen levels
Those recovering from Covid-19 are to be given devices which can help spot dips in their blood oxygen-levels while they recover at home.
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