by kcarten | Aug 7, 2020 | News
KMBC Kansas City The public health agency has started using the Sara Alert system to bring automation to disease investigation, symptom tracking and contact tracing for COVID-19. “It’s a great system,” said Danielle Roethler, a community development...
by kcarten | Aug 7, 2020 | News
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Maine found that using automated symptom monitoring as a part of the state’s contact tracing program was well received, with the majority of monitored contacts (96.4%) agreeing to automated symptom monitoring. Automated...
by kcarten | Aug 6, 2020 | News
Infection Control Daily Maine health officials did not have the resources to conduct contract tracing in the traditional manner, and Maine’s relatively sparse, and spread out population also presented obstacles. The technological answer to these problems is called...
by kcarten | Aug 5, 2020 | News
WABI MDI Hospital will start using Maine CDC’s Sara Alert system to enroll close contacts of out-of-state confirmed cases. Read full WABI article.
by kcarten | Aug 5, 2020 | News
The Ellsworth American MDI Hospital will use the web-based Sara Alert tool to begin contacting those “close contacts” (anyone who has been within 6 feet of the person for 15 minutes or more) of these out-of-state cases, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
by kcarten | Aug 4, 2020 | News
Press Herald About 10 percent of Maine’s COVID-19 cases from May 14 through July 10 were identified using the automatic contact tracing system called Sara Alert. Read full Press Herald article.
