The Potential of Public Health
Though Smart Cities are working to implement more cutting-edge technologies, the management of public health services is a vital area still full of untapped potential.
We at SimplyCast are always looking for ways to ease workloads and optimize processes in every field. This is especially important in healthcare facilities and emergency situations, where even a wasted second could mean a loss of life. That’s why we’ve created a user-friendly hyperautomation platform with a focus on versatility, convenience, and speed.
What is Hyperautomation?
Put simply, hyperautomation is the process of automating an organization’s processes, which could revolutionize healthcare as we know it.
Our platform doesn’t aim to replace manpower, but to redirect it. Consider how valuable it would be for public health facilities to free up doctors and nurses by eliminating clerical and repetitive tasks. Can you imagine being able to communicate with the click of a button, track patient progress in real time, or automate your paperwork assignment and filing?
These are just some of the conveniences hyperautomation can offer.
Since public health is such a huge area of discussion, this blog will focus specifically on contact tracing: an exceptional tool for managing pandemics, epidemics, and other outbreaks of infectious disease.
Let’s start by looking at how contact tracing works.
How Contact Tracing Protects Public Health
Contact tracing aims to break the chain of transmission by keeping track of infected individuals and informing the people they encounter. It is an asset in controlling and slowing the spread of communicable diseases, as it hopes to provide instructions to and overall decrease the number of people who are exposed.
Due to its extensive use and numerous advances during the COVID-19 Pandemic, contact tracing has gained considerable recognition in recent years. It is already an incredibly useful tool, but we at SimplyCast have identified some opportunities for hyperautomation that could improve the process even further.
Introducing SimplyCast’s Contact Tracing Use Case
Our use case library provides a wealth of scalable frameworks that help Smart Cities get smarter. No expensive proprietary hardware needed—just incorporate our platform into your existing infrastructure, and we’ll keep you on the cutting edge.
With our Contact Tracing use case, you can upgrade your check-in process with QR codes. These can be placed in buildings, facilities, or anywhere else you need them. Rather than creating more work and wait times or risking your staff’s health by having them manually process guests who might be carriers, just have visitors scan the QR code with their personal device.
If someone at a location is confirmed to be ill, public health officials and potentially exposed individuals are notified immediately, minimizing the chance that exposed individuals can then go on to expose others. Automated notifications provide helpful instructions and advice, like how long they should isolate.
Our Contact Tracing solution co-ordinates communication between public health authorities, businesses, and communities, and is a great way for everyone to stay informed, get the help they need, and secure overall better public health.
Let’s check out the benefits!
How Can It Help?
Our Contact Tracing use case boasts many notable features, but we’ve listed some of our favorites below:
- Check-in quick: Members of the public can check-in and receive notifications with their personal devices. This entirely automated check-in method reduces the workload of administration staff, eliminates long wait times, ensures all information is conveyed accurately, and provides useful data analytics that a manual check-in system cannot.
- Let others know: In the event of their exposure, residents are notified right away. Automated alerts provide useful information and instructions on what to do next.
- Return to normality: Contact tracing mitigates the spread of disease and promotes proactive reopening strategies for facilities and businesses. Having a plan that breaks the chain of infection lets us reopen faster, protects our neighbors, our resources, and our routines, and gets things back to normal.
- Keep things familiar: Our Contact Tracing use case provides a framework that is highly versatile and integrates with any city’s existing hardware and processes. To tackle a particular communicable disease, simply customize your alerts and forms as necessary.
These are just some of the conveniences our Contact Tracing use case provides. To discover the full extent of our platform’s capabilities, please reach out today to book a demo with one of our experts!
Our Future, Safeguarded
With the growth of technology constantly shaping the amazing things that Smart Cities can do, the future of contact tracing looks very exciting.
As we’ve seen, contact tracing is already an invaluable tool for handling the spread of infectious diseases. Without it, the chain of transmission would only keep growing and could endanger countless lives. However, hyperautomation truly helps contact tracing shine.
Improved processes and effortless integration make contact tracing accessible for all. With QR codes, it’s easy for members of the public to self-report and check-in wherever they go. Notifications keep everyone updated with instructions and resources, offering a sense of support to the potentially exposed. Also, automatically generated data analytics provide public health officials with a wealth of data that could help them predict future outbreaks well before they happen!
Imagine a Smart City that is prepared for any emergency, be it man-made, natural, or medical. With hyperautomation, we’re already there.
Try our Contact Tracing use case today to see how hyperautomation can elevate your Smart City.
