Healthcare IT Today May 15, 2020
One tool that’s getting talked about a lot in managing pandemic infection rates is cellphone-based contact tracing. Tracing consumer movements and interactions could be incredibly resource-intensive if done by hand – calling for roughly 100,000 workers to mount an adequate campaign in the US – but going the cellphone-based route could drastically reduce the level of resources needed to get the job done.
Not surprisingly, the tech giants of the world are attacking this problem. For example, Apple and Google recently announced that they were partnering to develop tools allowing organizations to leverage cellphones’ Bluetooth capabilities for this purpose.
As promising as this sounds, however, it could be some time before we overcome the obstacles to creating a practical location-tracking...
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