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= Terminology =
 
= Terminology =
   
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* mHealth: an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices
 
* Encounter: having been at or below a distance from another person at the same time t during a period >= p
 
* Encounter: having been at or below a distance from another person at the same time t during a period >= p
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* Contact tracing: investigating how a carrier of the virus (the 'index case') got infected.
* Transmission tracing: mapping how the virus spreads; either through person-to-person transmission, or through environmental transmission
 
 
* Contact: an encounter that really resulted in close interaction between two or more people
 
* Contact: an encounter that really resulted in close interaction between two or more people
 
* Cluster: concentration of people in a perimeter, or in a vehicle, either simultaneous or over time
 
* Cluster: concentration of people in a perimeter, or in a vehicle, either simultaneous or over time
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* Exposure: Contact with a possibly infectious person, approximated through an encounter with an infectious subject
 
* Exposure: Contact with a possibly infectious person, approximated through an encounter with an infectious subject
 
* Spreader: A subject who is the source or possible source of multiple infections. I.c. a person appearing in multiple Exposures and/or appearing in multiple Hotspots.
 
* Spreader: A subject who is the source or possible source of multiple infections. I.c. a person appearing in multiple Exposures and/or appearing in multiple Hotspots.
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* Transmission tracing: investigating how a carrier of the virus (the 'index case') got infected. This term more explicitly than 'contact tracing' encompasses other transmission routes beyond person-to-person transmission.
 
= Expected outcomes =
 
 
* Determine '''‘encounters’''', i.e. having been at or below a distance d from another person at the same time t during a period >= p.
 
** Based on: movements paths crossing each other
 
** Used for:
 
*** Giving context to BLE ‘encounters’
 
*** Determining who has had risk-full encounters
 
* Give context to '''encounters''' (open space, building, kind of activity, …)
 
* Determine '''‘visits’''', i.e. having been at a given point-of-interest, either in open sky or in a building.
 
** Based on:
 
*** multiple location measurements in a perimeter/geofence
 
*** interruption of location measurements at a given location (entrance to a building)
 
** Used for:
 
*** identifying possible locations where environmental transmission occurs
 
*** proxy for non-users in shops, kinder-garten, …
 
* Identifying '''clusters''' of people (either simultaneous or spread over time) over a given threshold of people per time lapse. These could evolve into Points-of-Interest.
 
** ‘Shop’
 
** ‘Provincial Domain’
 
** ‘Neighborhood party’
 
** Not: ‘Garden party’
 
* Identifying '''movements''' between Clusters.
 
** With diagnostic data added
 
*** Identify '''exposures'''
 
*** Identify '''hotspots'''
 
*** Identify '''spreaders'''
 
** Aggregated
 
*** A map of the spread of the infections
 
 
= Constraints =
 
 
* Personal data (ie data that are not strictly anonymous) can not leave the device, or a personal vault, without the consent of the user.
 
* Such consent should only be asked when there is a strong indication that the individual is infectious.
 
 
What is sufficient anonymisation of location data?
 
 
* place where home address can be suspected needs to be absent
 
* what about work place address?
 
* … (TBD) …
 
 
= Definitions (see model) =
 
 
* Transmission Tracing Types
 
** Encounters, Visits, Movements and Symptoms
 
* Human Contact Tracing (HCT)
 
* Primary Care relationship
 
* Testing, Isolation, Quarantining Organisation
 
* Epidemiologic surveillance
 
* Research
 
* Autonomous Contact Tracing (ACT)
 
* Solution
 
** The sum of processes and technologies (components, frameworks, hardware) that make up a …
 
* Scenario
 
** A combination of solutions
 
* System
 
** Set of applications, processes and conventions that fulfills a purpose. (example: Human Contact Tracing)
 
* Technology
 
** Building blocks for building applications. (eg DP3T, Apple/Google framework, …)
 
* Accuracy
 
* Dependability
 
* Speed
 
* Interoperability
 
* Privacy
 

Latest revision as of 12:53, 20 May 2020

Terminology

  • mHealth: an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices
  • Encounter: having been at or below a distance from another person at the same time t during a period >= p
  • Contact tracing: investigating how a carrier of the virus (the 'index case') got infected.
  • Contact: an encounter that really resulted in close interaction between two or more people
  • Cluster: concentration of people in a perimeter, or in a vehicle, either simultaneous or over time
  • Point-of-Interest: a perimeter or building for which we want to monitor the visits
  • Movements: movement of people between two points
  • Path: a calculated route based on GPS measurements
  • Visit: having been at a given point-of-interest, either in open sky or in a building
  • Hotspot: Cluster with infections above a given threshold
  • Exposure: Contact with a possibly infectious person, approximated through an encounter with an infectious subject
  • Spreader: A subject who is the source or possible source of multiple infections. I.c. a person appearing in multiple Exposures and/or appearing in multiple Hotspots.
  • Transmission tracing: investigating how a carrier of the virus (the 'index case') got infected. This term more explicitly than 'contact tracing' encompasses other transmission routes beyond person-to-person transmission.