Many countries battling with coronavirus are under nation-wide lockdowns which helps reduce the spread of the virus but which are very expensive and damaging to their economy. In some countries shutting business down for long periods can become an even more serious issue than the virus itself. Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea business has been less impacted, as they have all managed to keep their epidemics in check through the aggressive use of testing and tracing. They identify and isolate cases early and trace and quarantine their contacts, while often imposing only light restrictions on the economy.
The Daktela contact centre platform is an ideal tool for mass contact tracing as has been proven by the Czech government and the Czech Army. Both use our platform at the core of the national smart quarantine project in that country to fight SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Our multi-level campaigns are ideal for contact tracing management. Within the Daktela system it is possible to quickly implement any tracing workflows within different campaigns. The use of Drag & Drop call-scripts supports this need for change management.
Many countries use mobile smart tracing apps based on standard bluetooth technology already. Daktela can connect data from these apps into the tracing process itself and build lists of individuals with potential risk of exposures automatically.
Give knowledge and power to operators by showing them any relevant data for the calls. Display real time epidemiological cluster maps and heatmaps allowing you to make the right decisions regarding who to call.
You can't manage what you can't measure so we allow you to measure what you need. We provide powerful real time activity reporting and statistics within our system. This can be integrated with other external data systems to blend relevant data into real time reports relevant to the tracing application.
We know speed is key and can save lives. As an open system with powerful API we can easily integrate with external health systems and data houses in a matter of hours or days.
We understand and realise the importance of making the onboarding of new operators easy. These may be volunteers not experienced in working in a contact centre operation. We have designed our application to ensure these people are operational within few hours. We have also made own training academy available and use a wiki-based knowledge application.
We understand that the contact tracing process can differ very much in each area or country. Easy and flexible management is therefore critical to its success. Daktela is based on flexible multiple level campaign management workflows which can be automated and modified very easily. Usually a positive contact is put into the 1st campaign where the tracing work begins. Operators can then find other potential suspicious contacts during epidemiological interviews or gets list of contacts from the external apps such as bluetooth smart mobile tracing applications.
Other groups of operators can call these potential suspicious contacts to check on their health status, schedule them for testing and even put them into quarantine. There can be other campaigns which automatically call these quarantined people and check on their health status, this can be done through our fully automated voice bot system with the option to transfer to live operator or doctor if required.
Each hygiene station or hospital in the country can use their own Daktela instance to help with contact tracing. Individual processes can be adapted to reflect local requirements. Where there is a nation-wide contact tracing approach a single Daktela instance can support hundreds or thousands of operators making contact.
Accurate Data is vital for each epidemiologist. Daktela can draw various heat maps of epidemic spread over the country and make this information available to epidemiologists. They can use this information during call interviews or offline to plan activities. By providing information regarding the centre of the pandemic and linking this to the location of the suspicious contact you are calling we can provide a far more effective service.
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Within Daktela you can create customised widget-based views for epidemiologists and tracers. They use this to easily find contacts and display details on other contacts in the area. This data is instantly generated from the defined tracing workflow created and can be continuously updated. It is also possible to display other data widgets-based maps showing contacts in quarantine.
You can provide tracers with memory maps which are built from telecommunications location data. First the called contact must give consent to use this location history data. When consent is given, we can enable tracing and create a memory map which displays the historic location of the called contact for a given period. This can help tracers to make more precise contact tracing and speed up the average call handling time. If consent is not given tracer can still make the call to the contact without this map and a regular interview is done. We built this solution in the Czech Republic smart quarantine project with our data and government telco partners. It fully respects GDPR
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To enhance and empower smart quarantine systems it is necessary to use a smart tracing mobile application which is widely used. The opt-in system uses Bluetooth to transmit a randomised and anonymous identifier to nearby devices. A user can then choose to upload their data to the health authorities, and this can then be used by tracing contact centres to quickly build up a list of suspicious contacts. These contacts are then called by the tracers and if validated are logged as a suspicious contacts and possible quarantine is ordered.
The Government agreed to the establishment and statute of a COVID-19 Central Management Team. This team will be a new advisory body to the Government, and will be responsible for the “smart quarantine” project. The Government wants to use modern information-technology project to search faster and more efficiently for people who could be infected with COVID-19. The Army of the Czech Republic is helping significantly with its implementation by deploying 300 soldiers. Army medics are helping hygiene stations with contact tracing calls using Daktela and sample collections of COVID19 positive people and transport into laboratories.
We deployed our cloud contact centre technology at an NHS site in UK. Their legacy phone system was overwhelmed with a large volume of calls which could not be properly handled. Within just a week we deployed a new solution which can handle a far larger volume of calls to provide better contact tracing capabilities for the local NHS team to fight COVID-19 epidemic in their area.
The @BloombergDotOrg initiative to work with New York State to develop a contact tracing program will be hard work. But I know, because we’re working with @NYGovCuomo, @ResolveTSL, and @JohnsHopkinsSPH, that we’ll succeed. Now is the time to rely on each other.
Mike Bloomberg on Twitter
Mass contact tracing is the only internationally proven alternative to mass lockdown. We need to act fast.
Jeremy Hunt on Twitter
