MedCity News June 4, 2020
Companies are rolling out suites of tools to monitor their workforce for Covid-19 cases. But even in the midst of a pandemic, there are still limitations on what information they can collect and how they can use it.
Consulting giant PwC developed a contact-tracing app that would track if employees had been in close contact with each other while in the office, alerting them if they might have been exposed to Covid-19. While the company is testing the system internally, it plans to offer it to its clients.
Other companies are turning to screening tools, such as Microsoft and UnitedHealth Group, which are rolling out an app that would require employees to answer a series of questions about symptoms before...