Recent Facts that led Contact Tracing Application Industry

In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying people who may have come into contact with an infected person ("Contacts") and then collecting more information about those contacts. By tracing the contacts of infected people, screening for infections, isolating or treating the infected, and tracking their contacts, public health aims to reduce infections in the population. Conditions for which contact tracing is commonly used include tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable infections such as measles, sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), blood-borne infections, Ebola, some serious bacterial infections, and novel viral infections (e.g. SARS) CoV, H1N1, and SARS-CoV-2).

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Some of the key players of Contact Tracing Application Industry:

Oracle Corporation, Apple Inc., SAP SE, Siemens AG, ServiceNow, Salesforce.com Inc., T-Systems, Microsoft Corporation, IBM Corporation, Google Inc.

The goals of contact tracking are:

• Interrupting the ongoing transmission and reducing the spread of infection
• To make contacts aware of the possibility of infection and to offer preventive services or prophylactic measures
• Diagnosis, advice and treatment of already infected people
• When the infection is treatable, to prevent re-infection of the originally infected patient
• Learn about the epidemiology of a disease in a specific population

Contact tracing has been a pillar of communicable disease control in public health for decades. For example, smallpox eradication was accomplished not through universal immunization, but through extensive contact tracing to find all infected people. This was followed by the isolation of infected people and immunization of the surrounding community and contacts who were at risk of developing smallpox.