German health care: Tackling COVID with paper, pen and a fax machine | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW
German health care: Tackling COVID with paper, pen and a fax machine The painfully slow digitalization of Germany's health care system has long been a source of frustration. But the inefficiency is hampering attempts to fight the pandemic. Many health authorities still use pen and paper and fax machines to collate date Whether it's Ebola, monkeypox, Lassa fever or meningococcus, for years, epidemics in Nigeria and Ghana have been fought with German software. "Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System," or SORMAS, is the name of the networked system for contact tracing and...
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