StartUp Health October 20, 2021

With their app, Sameer Halai and his team are building a platform for mitigating infectious diseases that balances public health with personal privacy.

The Challenge

When COVID-19 burst onto the scene in early 2020, it fundamentally changed how we thought about health. It ushered in a new era of virtual care and normalized telemedicine. It also changed how we think about healthcare privacy and how our personal decisions impact the community around us. It raised a lot of thorny questions, like how can we use technology like smartphones to slow infections without eroding civil liberties?

Today, thanks to the lessons of the pandemic, states and nations are embracing new ways of fighting communicable diseases. We’ve...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Healthcare System, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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