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Previously submitted to: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (no longer under consideration since Jun 07, 2021)

Date Submitted: Dec 8, 2020

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Contact Tracing in Healthcare Settings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Guanglin Tang; 
  • Kenneth Westover; 
  • Steve Jiang

ABSTRACT

Background:

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great damages and it will likely linger for long time. Contact tracing in healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic is of special importance because the population there are the most vulnerable to the pandemic. A good contact tracing technology in healthcare settings should be equipped with six features: promptness, simplicity, high precision, integration, minimized privacy concerns, and social fairness. Existing digital technologies can potentially provide elegant solutions for contact tracing in healthcare settings, of which the indoor real-time location system based on Bluetooth Low Energy and artificial intelligence may be a good candidate.

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 Citation

Please cite as:

Tang G, Westover K, Jiang S

Contact Tracing in Healthcare Settings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

JMIR Preprints. 08/12/2020:26352

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.26352

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/26352

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