Erin Durkin reports on Mayor DeBlasio’s plans: …. When someone tests positive for Covid-19, contact tracers will get their information from a state database and attempt to call them. If they can’t reach the patient by phone, they will visit their home to ask them who they’ve been in close contact with, defined as spending…
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IN: Community Health wins partial reversal in family records dispute
Katie Stancombe reports on a medical records privacy case: Community Health Network, Inc. v. Heather McKenzie and Daniel McKenzie, individually and as parents and natural guardians of J.M. and O.M., John McKenzie, Deborah West, Michael West, and Katrina Gray, 19A-CT-873: The Indiana Court of Appeals has partially reversed in favor of a hospital on invasion…
French privacy watchdog approves coronavirus tracing app
From The Local: France’s privacy watchdog gave the green light on Tuesday to a government-backed cellphone app that will alert users if they have been in contact with an infected person. Use of the app called StopCovid will be voluntary, and will keep track of users who had been in close proximity of one another over…
Singapore looking at wearable devices to support COVID-19 contact tracing
Eileen Yu reports: To address concerns about battery life and the use of Bluetooth in its contact tracing app, Singapore currently is looking to develop wearable devices to help drive the adoption of such technologies and boost its efforts to contain COVID-19. It currently has no plans, for now at least, to make the use…