Title: At-Home Diagnostic Testing for Infectious Diseases: A Tool for Accelerating COVID Diagnosis and Building Pandemic Preparedness for the Future

URL: https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/200625-at-home-diagnostic-testing.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 16-page report summarizes a study to develop an expert assessment of the promise and challenges posed by at-home infectious diagnostic technologies. A major aim of the study is to inform pandemic preparedness activities that rely on diagnostic technologies and determine how at-home approaches can integrate with and augment the existing diagnostic paradigm. Limitations surrounding access to diagnostic testing have dominated much of the current response to COVID-19 and highlight the need to have more rapid, convenient, and equitable access to testing.

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Title: Digital Contact Tracing Technology: Overview and Considerations for Implementation

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11559

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, some public health authorities are automating part of the contact tracing process with smartphone apps. This three-page report provides information about "digital exposure notification (DEN)" -- Bluetooth, which allows short-range wireless communications between electronic devices, and apps that may also be used by public health authorities to enable "digital contact tracing" (DCT).

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Title: COVID-19: Digital Contact Tracing and Privacy Law

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10511

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page report discusses the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule's application to digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the interaction of the HIPAA Privacy Rule with mobile application contact tracing, and other federal laws that regulate data privacy.

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Title: Report Identifies Health Systems’ Priority Research Questions on COVID-19 | AcademyHealth

URL: https://www.academyhealth.org/publications/2020-04/report-identifies-health-systems-priority-research-questions-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report focuses on the information needs of the healthcare and community organizations engaged in the COVID-19 response. It outlines rapid-cycle evaluation priorities in the following six categories: Patient and community experience, engagement, and outcomes; Care delivery, management, decision-making, and operations; Workforce needs, training, and policies; Technology, data, and telehealth; Policies, including payment policy; and Collaboration and coordination.

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Title: COVID-19: Rapid Application of Technology for Emergency Department Tele-Triage: An Information Paper

URL: https://www.acep.org/siteassets/covid-19---rapid-application-of-technology-for-emergency-department-tele-triage.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 18-page information paper provides guidance, including context, review of various solutions, and an example of a rapid tele-triage implementation process. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a major challenge, but it is also an important opportunity to take emergency care to the next level. Tele-triage can have a dramatic impact on emergency department operations from all perspectives, including economically.

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Title: Technology for the Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Respirators Now Available

URL: https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2020/04/coronavirus-update-technology-n95-decontamination-and-reuse-4-8-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This one-page document provides information about the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System (CCDS) and how it could help organizations access additional quantities of N95 and equivalent respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Covid-19: Data Quality and Considerations for Modeling and Analysis | U.S. GAO

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-635SP

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 49-page technology assessment examines collection methods and limitations of COVID-19 surveillance data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); approaches for analyzing COVID-19 data; and uses and limitations of forecast modeling for understanding COVID-19.

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Title: Science & Tech Spotlight: Contact Tracing Apps | U.S. GAO

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-666SP

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document explains how contact tracing can help reduce transmission rates for infectious diseases like COVID-19 by identifying and notifying people who may have been exposed. Contact tracing apps, notably those using proximity tracing, could expedite such efforts. However, there are challenges, including accuracy, adoption rates, and privacy concerns about these apps.

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Title: COVID-19 digital transformation & technology | McKinsey

URL: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-covid-19-has-pushed-companies-over-the-technology-tipping-point-and-transformed-business-forever

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Internet and the Pandemic | Pew Research Center

URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/09/01/the-internet-and-the-pandemic/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone–Enhanced Surveillance Programs | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA365-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: As U.S. public health agencies consider COVID-19-related mobile surveillance programs, they will need to address privacy concerns to encourage broad uptake and protect against privacy harms. This eight-page report discusses how otherwise, COVID-19 mobile surveillance programs likely will be ineffective and the data collected unrepresentative of the situation on the ground.

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Title: Experiences of Community Health Centers in Expanding Telemedicine | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA100-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Safety-net medical providers can substantially increase their telemedicine services with modest investments in new staff and technology, a move that can help them expand patients' access to specialized medical care, according to this 60-page study. The findings in the report are relevant to health centers that are trying to rapidly expand telemedicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA365-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 164-page report evaluates the short- and long-term privacy harms associated with the use of mobile phone surveillance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, including political, economic, and social harms. The authors consider whether two potentially competing goals can be achieved concurrently: the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID-19 and future public health crises, and the protection of privacy and civil liberties.

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Title: Tackling Covid-19 Pandemic through Integrating Digital Technology and Public Health - The Rockefeller Foundation

URL: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/tackling-covid-19-pandemic-through-integrating-digital-technology-and-public-health/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Through a combination of desktop research and key informant interviews used in this study, this 142-page report documents and analyses the impact and implications of the actions of the Chinese government and digital technology solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers an in-depth understanding of the actions and strategies implemented by the government, the roles digital technology played, the technologies used, and the impact made across six outbreak response categories.

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