Roundup: Latvia's COVID-19 app connects to EU interoperability system, Scottish government funds med-tech first response and more briefs
LATVIA'S COVID-19 APP CONNECTS TO EU'S INTEROPERABILITY SYSTEM Latvia's contact tracing app, Apturi Covid (Stop Covid) has connected to the interoperability system for other contact tracing apps in the European Commission. This will allow the Apturi Covid app to warn and notify a user if they have come into contact with an COVID-19 infected person when in Germany, Italy, Ireland and Spain. The European Commission's solution enabled interoperability of EU member states' contact tracing apps last month. Smartphones with the app will be able to exchange "digital handshakes" via Bluetooth, which ...
Source: mobihealthnews.com