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Health department briefs committee on contact‑tracing capacity; vendors propose voluntary phone app to speed exposure notification
Summary
ADH reports improvements in average case and contact investigation times but acknowledges gaps in translation, reach and timeliness. Private vendors proposed a voluntary Apple/Google exposure‑notification app as a complementary tool; ADH expressed openness to evaluate the technology.
The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) told the Senate Insurance & Commerce Committee that the state has scaled up case investigation and contact‑tracing capacity but still faces operational gaps.
Dr. Jennifer Dillehay (ADH) described the ADH workflow: laboratory reports feed case records into the health department system; nurse case investigators interview positive cases and assign contacts to contact tracers. ADH reported roughly 109 case investigators and about 785 contract tracers (through multiple vendors) and said it…
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