Abstract
During the next phase of COVID-19 outbreak, mobile applications could be the most used and proposed technical solution for monitoring and tracking, by acquiring data from subgroups of the population. A possible problem could be data fragmentation, which could lead to three harmful effects: i) data could not cover the minimum percentage of the people for monitoring efficacy, ii) it could be heavily biased due to different data collection policies, and iii) the app could not monitor subjects moving across different zones or countries. A common approach could solve these problems, defining requirements for the selection of observed data and technical specifications for the complete interoperability between different solutions.
This work aims to integrate the international framework of requirements in order to mitigate the known issues and to suggest a method for clinical data collection that ensures to researchers and public health institution significant and reliable data. First, we propose to identify which data is relevant for COVID-19 monitoring through literature and guidelines review. Then we analysed how the currently available guidelines for COVID-19 monitoring applications drafted by European Union and World Health Organization face the issues listed before. Eventually we proposed the first draft of integration of current guidelines.
Keywords: Contact tracing, COVID-19, Epidemiological, Mobile
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