Tory peer reveals NHS contact-tracing app has cost £11.8m to date
The NHS contact-tracing app has so far cost £11.8million, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for innovation has revealed in the House of Lords.
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Google and Apple release their contact-tracing software
Google and Apple have released their Covid-19 contact-tracing software which can be used by smartphones across the globe.
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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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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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NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app
NHSX has chosen to take a ‘centralised’ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Google’s ‘decentralised’ approach.
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Digital Health Unplugged: April news team debrief (from home)
Join senior reporter Andrea Downey, editor Hannah Crouch, and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma as we discuss the development of contact-tracing apps.
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Apple and Google join forces in fight against Covid-19
The companies will create contact tracing technology to enable the use of Bluetooth to help governments and health authorities track Covid-19.
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NHS partners with tech giants to develop Covid-19 data platform
The platform connects the Government and other national organisations responsible for coordinating the UK’s response to “secure, reliable and timely data”.
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NHS working with tech giants to battle coronavirus fake news
The NHS has announced it will work with the likes of Google and Twitter to help the public get easy access to accurate NHS information about coronavirus.
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Epic ‘tells customers it will cease to work with Google Cloud’
Account representatives from US firm Epic have reportedly called customers to tell them it will not be working with Google Cloud.
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