MANILA – The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has approved the consolidation of contact-tracing data via digital applications.
According to Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, digital contact tracing data “shall conform with specific minimum data requirements” the Department of Health (DOH) set.
“Data on the contacts of COVID-19 patients from health facilities, establishments, workplaces, transport hubs, and local government units shall be submitted to a centralized tracing data repository, which will be linked to either COVID-Kaya or the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS),” Roque said.
“StaySafe.ph will be the government’s digital contact tracing application of choice and will be made mandatory for adoption and use in all national government agencies and instrumentalities as well as LGUs,” he added.
Roque further said that private establishments, facilities and offices are encouraged to use Stafysafe.ph while for those with existing contact tracing applications they are enjoined to integrate their systems with the Staysafe.ph system.
The IATF-EID directed the sub-technical working group on ICT solutions to formulate guidelines for the integration of digital contact tracing applications “with the end view of seamless linking and sharing of essential, necessary, and accurate laboratory data, case data and statistical results.”
The IATF-EID also created the Data Resiliency for Ease of Access and Management (DREAM) Team, which was tasked to deploy, build capacity and monitor the use of ICT solutions that are part of the official COVID-19 ICT ecosystem.
The DREAM Team is headed by the Department of Information and Communications Technology, with the Interior, Health, and Science departments as well as the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines as members./PN
