Software Sprint - Single project: quarano - Digital documentation of COVID-19 infection cases & contact persons for health authorities

In the quarano project, a platform will be created to support health authorities in documenting isolation and quarantine measures as well as in manual contact tracing of index patients. By digitizing self-reports of confirmed COVID-19 cases, data currently collected manually will thus be made available to health authorities automatically and in real time. More time is left (even with increasing case numbers) for the critical and meaningful cases. A simple and fast implementation (web-based roll-out and cloud hosting) allows for quick relief. By providing information about direct contacts of the infection case (RKI category I and III), they can be directly informed and collected. Via an interface, the health authorities should be able to directly see which contacts have been indicated and, if necessary, need to be contacted. This tracking and documentation of clusters / chains of infection by the health authorities is already a central point of national epidemic management - and will become even more important with the relaxation of the measures.