With multiple measures being taken to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, the use of information technology for contact tracing is opening up new possibilities towards fighting the pandemic.
Contact tracing is used to break the transmission in infectious diseases manually in which public authorities reach the people to whom the disease infected person may have come in contact with. Now with digital technologies coming in, contact tracing apps are being leveraged to contain the virus spread as soon as possible.
“Contact tracing detects the cases for stopping the spread which could become a burden on the healthcare system. Here, data would play a key role in how this pandemic could be fought as it can be used for identifying a carrier in the shortest possible time and then tracing them backwards to see who may have come in contact with or the asymptomatic carrier,” said Ankit Chaudhari, CEO & Co-founder of data marketplace-AIISMA which has recently come up with a contact tracing application.
AiiHealth allows users to share personal data to a market place where they can exchange it for rewards. The user-health data can be shared with agencies to helping identify hotspots and get alerts when entering disease hotspots.
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The privacy of personal health management information (height, weight, gender and health conditions) shared by the user is protected as the data is not saved in the servers, said the company.
While Aiisma has some common features, like in government-sponsored Aarogya Setu app for contact tracing and health mapping, however, according to Chaudhari, the major difference in Aarogya Setu is that one cannot trace back steps over the last week and the level of interaction between the app and the user is very limited.
Seeing the critical times, he believes, if startups are given access to connect to this particular platform (Aarogya Setu app) as a centralised database and then build technologies upon it, that could become real tool to fight not just Covid-19 but any pandemic that India faces in the days to come.
“This information can be critical for health authorities to react fast, fight back and also make it transactional for the user to stay connected to the platform,” Chaudhari added.
Presently, AIISMA is working on the upcoming real-time wallet and reward section where the consumer can see on the rewards earned depending upon the relevance of data and the shared geolocation.
Source: ET HealthWorld