No more paper contact tracing...
The Victorian Health Department has quietly scrapped its paper COVID-19 notification system in a major boost for the state's trouble-plagued contact tracing unit.
The new electronic notification system, which went live on Wednesday afternoon, allows doctors who test people for COVID-19 to quickly enter results into an online database that instantly alerts health authorities of positive tests.have hampered efforts to get on top of community transmission of the virus.
Australian Medical Association Victorian president Julian Rait welcomed the new electronic system, which he had first called for in May."The AMA has been calling for this for months. We're really pleased this has finally come to pass and they've trashed their fax machines," Associate Professor Rait said.
"Previously it was not unusual for it to take two days to get from paper to the computer," the doctor said. The digital system "will stop the spelling mistakes that cause cases not to be linked to the lab notifications", she said, explaining that classification errors were being caused by mistakes in reading handwriting.Get our Coronavirus Update newsletter for the day's crucial developments at a glance, the numbers you need to know and what our readers are saying. Sign up to
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