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Vibrent Health Wins NIH Contract for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020Rich Tehrani

Health technology company Vibrent Health has been awarded a contract worth a potential value of $4.23 million from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), to develop a large-scale, data-driven approach to fight COVID-19. Vibrent Health will expand and enhance its privacy-protected, cybersecure Digital Health Solutions […]

Digital Contact Tracing Proven Effective in Reducing Spread of COVID-19

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020Erik Linask

One of the major areas of concern since the beginning of the pandemic has been keeping residents in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and retirement communities safe. A nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, in fact, was the center of one of the earliest outbreaks in the U.S. Since then, similar facilities across the country have […]

To Reduce COVID-19 Risk, Oklahoma Call Center Transformed to Contact Tracing Center

August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Staff Writer

By Laura Stotler, Contributing Editor COVID-19 contact tracing initiatives are booming in Oklahoma, where an entire call center has been dedicated to getting in touch with individuals who may have come into contact with the coronavirus. The call center, located near the state Capitol, is being used by the Oklahoma State Health Department to contact […]

Campus Safety Requires Contact Tracing

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020Erik Linask

There’s been a lot of discussion about contact tracing as a means of reducing the spread of COVID-19 as schools look to re-open campuses for the fall semester. Quite simply, if you’ve got tens of thousands of students living on a campus, even if they follow safety protocols, the odds that nobody will contract the […]

Linux Foundation Public Health Initiative Brings Top Tech Firms Together for Pandemic Solutions

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020Erik Linask

While there’s not much fun in the lockdowns and restrictions that have been become our lives these past several months, the tech space has certainly seen plenty of exciting innovation, including countless companies adjusting their efforts to help combat the COVID-19 virus. It’s included new sanitization, distancing, screening and monitoring, and other health and safety […]

Tracking COVID-19 Without Compromising Privacy and Security

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020Erik Linask

As we watch confirmed COVID-19 cases surge across the country, even as businesses have started re-opening, the case for technology to support safe workplaces becomes stronger by the day. Employers can hardly afford to lose large portions of their workers to illness, and employees need to feel safe as they return to their jobs. HT […]

New Contact Tracking Feature from Wireless Leader EnGenius

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020Rich Tehrani

EnGenius Technologies Inc. is a global multinational wireless networking company announced contact tracking within their Client Timeline feature in the EnGenius Cloud platform. The new feature will provide the ability to identify surrounding client devices to assist in scenarios such as COVID-19 over Wi-Fi. In other recent news, the company has developed a scalable Wi-Fi solution […]

100 Million People Are Using Contact Tracing Apps

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020Rich Tehrani

Wow, that was fast! One of the most important parts of slowing the spread of CoronaVirus is knowing who might be infected and quarantining them until you are sure they are not infected. It takes a single infected person to eventually infect large populations. If you listen to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s press briefings, […]

Headway in Research Invests in Contact Tracing Team

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020Maurice Nagle

Conquering COVID-19 will take an effort of global proportions. It is every citizen of the world’s responsibility to be smart, follow best practice and prioritize our personal wellbeing. A powerful tool in flattening the curve is contact tracing, highlighting how important data is exterminating the coronavirus pandemic threat. Bringing 25 years of data collection expertise […]

Will Apple and Google Contact Tracing Efforts Fall Short?

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020Maurice Nagle

The practice of contact tracing involves taking action to identify those high at risk of contracting COVID-19 from possible exposure, then notify those possibly in contact with someone positive with the virus and take appropriate action for those infected. Around the globe, various forms of contact tracing have been put in place to keep tabs […]

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Vibrent Health Wins NIH Contract for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Digital Contact Tracing Proven Effective in Reducing Spread of COVID-19

To Reduce COVID-19 Risk, Oklahoma Call Center Transformed to Contact Tracing Center

Campus Safety Requires Contact Tracing

Linux Foundation Public Health Initiative Brings Top Tech Firms Together for Pandemic Solutions

Tracking COVID-19 Without Compromising Privacy and Security

New Contact Tracking Feature from Wireless Leader EnGenius

100 Million People Are Using Contact Tracing Apps

Headway in Research Invests in Contact Tracing Team

Will Apple and Google Contact Tracing Efforts Fall Short?

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