Description
Expert working group commissioned by the Digital Health and Care Institute to examine options for contact tracing and participatory disease surveillance apps in Covid-19. Four senior academics from Scottish universities examined what might be considered the optimum or desirable features of such apps - from the perspectives of public health practice and research, software privacy architectures, device and communications security and digital ethics.The working group produced a report that was circulated to key divisional leads in Scottish Government in late May. Initially produced as a closed document, the report has since been published by the Digital Health Institute as an Open Access paper, titled "Use of Participatory Apps in Contact Tracing: Options and Implications for Public Health, Privacy and Trust" (see links).
Period | Apr 2020 → May 2020 |
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Work for | Digital Health and Care Institute , United Kingdom |
Degree of Recognition | National |
Keywords
- Digital Health
- Public Health
- Covid-19
- mHealth
- apps
- Innovation
- Digital ethics
- software engineering
- security
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Research output
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Use of Participatory Apps in Contact Tracing: Options and Implications for Public Health, Privacy and Trust [Report]
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