Faced with the prospect of an ongoing pandemic through 2021 and into 2022, organizations must consider what tools they can use to help them safely re-open for employees and customers. Among these strategies, digital contact tracing (DCT) apps can offer an effective solution for an enterprise, but first you need to sort through a number of considerations.
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysts identified the potential for digital contact tracing systems to supplement or even replace traditional manual methods used by public health authorities. Broadly, contact tracing refers to the process of identifying, tracing, and contacting every person that an individual infected with a communicable disease has encountered. Contact tracing is a longstanding public health tool that has been used by governments in countering the spread of disease. Contemporary society is saturated in technology; almost all of us now carry a supercomputer in our pocket. This has given rise to the notion of ‘digital contact tracing’ – using our devices and digital systems to control the pandemic.