{"id":15580,"date":"2021-06-04T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=15580"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:38:56","slug":"rastreo-de-contactos-y-su-utilidad-contra-futuras-pandemias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/big-data\/rastreo-de-contactos-y-su-utilidad-contra-futuras-pandemias\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact tracing and its utility against future pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contact tracing is a critically important public health practice during epidemic disease emergency response. <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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This technique has been used from bubonic plague to HIV, however, in the case of COVID-19 it was a distinct challenge due to the short time of symptom development.<\/p>

The transmission speed, and the importance of asymptomatic carriers, represented a different task. However, digital technologies entered the scene \u201cModeling studies suggested that if digital contact-tracing apps were combined with other mitigation measures, Covid-19 epidemics could be slowed and theoretically even ended. Lessons can be learned from the deployment of digital technologies to augment contact tracing during this pandemic,\u201d explain Dr. James O'Connel and Dr. Derek T. O'Keeffe in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>

In countries such as South Korea, the response to the epidemic through contact tracing proved to be successful. This after suffering an epidemic of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2015.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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South Korea's success, was in part due to the digital contact tracing system, the previous experience of the epidemic in 2015, caused health authorities to obtain legal authority for the use of geolocation data for contact tracing from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreaks in the early 2020s.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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South Korea's success, was in part due to the digital contact tracing system, the previous experience of the epidemic in 2015, caused health authorities to obtain legal authority for the use of geolocation data for contact tracing from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreaks in the early 2020s.<\/p>

In this way they successfully managed to diagnose early on persons at risk of having been in contact with a confirmed positive case of COVID-19. And perform appropriate isolation and mandatory quarantine measures.<\/p>

\u201cGlobal positioning system (GPS) data from cell phones were used to create a centralized database of the movements of people with Covid-19 that was accessible online. The Corona 100m app used these data to warn users when they were near a location visited by an infected person,\u201d the researchers explained.<\/p>

Other countries, such as Singapore, Germany, Ireland and the UK, have developed their own contact tracing systems through digital technology; by the end of 2020, at least 65 systems were identified.<\/p>

\u201cDigital contact-tracing technologies must be made accessible, particularly to people with limited access to smartphone technology, those with limited digital health literacy, speakers of languages other than a country\u2019s primary language, and migrant communities,\u201d the researchers explained about the existing challenges on the application of this technology.<\/p>

By overcoming the various obstacles, contact tracing should become a reliable, accessible and privacy-sensitive tool for users.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp2102256<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El rastreo de contactos es una pr\u00e1ctica de salud p\u00fablica de suma importancia durante las respuestas ante emergencias por enfermedades epid\u00e9micas Esta t\u00e9cnica ha sido utilizada desde la peste bub\u00f3nica, hasta el VIH, sin embargo, en el caso de COVID-19 fue un desaf\u00edo distinto ante el corto tiempo de inicio de s\u00edntomas. La velocidad de transmisi\u00f3n, y la importancia de los portadores asintom\u00e1ticos, represent\u00f3 una tarea diferente. No obstante, las tecnolog\u00edas digitales entraron a escena “Los estudios de modelado sugirieron que, si las aplicaciones de rastreo de contactos digitales se combinaran con otras medidas de mitigaci\u00f3n, las epidemias de Covid-19 podr\u00edan ralentizarse y te\u00f3ricamente incluso terminar. Se pueden aprender lecciones del despliegue de tecnolog\u00edas digitales para aumentar el rastreo de contactos durante esta pandemia”, explican los doctores James O’Connel y Derek T. O’Keeffe en art\u00edculo publicado en The New England Journal of Medicine. En pa\u00edses como Corea del Sur, la respuesta ante la epidemia mediante el rastreo de contactos resultaron ser un \u00e9xito. Esto tras haber sufrido una epidemia de s\u00edndrome respiratorio del Medio Oriente (MERS) en 2015. El \u00e9xito de Corea del Sur, se debi\u00f3 en parte al sistema digital de rastreo de contactos, la experiencia previa de la epidemia en 2015, provoc\u00f3 que las autoridades de salud obtuvieran base legal para el uso de datos de geolocalizaci\u00f3n para el rastreo de contactos desde el comienzo de los brotes de COVID-19 a inicios del 2020. El \u00e9xito de Corea del Sur, se debi\u00f3 en parte al sistema digital de rastreo de contactos, la experiencia previa de la epidemia en 2015, provoc\u00f3 que las autoridades de salud obtuvieran base legal para el uso de datos de geolocalizaci\u00f3n para el rastreo de contactos desde el comienzo de los brotes de COVID-19 a inicios del 2020. De esta forma lograron con \u00e9xito diagnosticar tempranamente a personas con riesgo de haber estado en contacto con un caso positivo confirmado de COVID-19. Y realizar las medidas adecuadas de aislamiento y cuarentena obligatoria. \u201cLos datos del sistema de posicionamiento global (GPS) de los tel\u00e9fonos m\u00f3viles se utilizaron para crear una base de datos centralizada de los movimientos de las personas con Covid-19 a la que se pod\u00eda acceder en l\u00ednea. La aplicaci\u00f3n Corona 100m utiliz\u00f3 estos datos para advertir a los usuarios cuando estaban cerca de una ubicaci\u00f3n visitada por una persona infectada\u201d, explican los investigadores. Otros pa\u00edses como Singapur, Alemania, Irlanda y Reino Unido, han desarrollado sus propios sistemas de rastreo de contactos a trav\u00e9s de tecnolog\u00eda digital, a finales de 2020, exist\u00edan al menos 65 sistemas. \u201cLas tecnolog\u00edas digitales de rastreo de contactos deben ser accesibles, en particular para las personas con acceso limitado a la tecnolog\u00eda de los tel\u00e9fonos inteligentes, aquellos con conocimientos limitados de salud digital, hablantes de idiomas distintos al idioma principal de un pa\u00eds y comunidades de migrantes”, explican los investigadores sobre los desaf\u00edos existentes sobre la aplicaci\u00f3n de esta tecnolog\u00eda. Al superar los diversos obst\u00e1culos, el rastreo de contactos se deber\u00e1 convertir en una herramienta confiable, accesible y que cuida de la privacidad de los usuarios. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp2102256<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,3393],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-15580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-data","category-inteligencia-artificial-y-ciencia","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}