[LINK] NSW Health Notifications of Negative Virus Test results

[jwhit at internode.on.net]

Same thing is happening in Victoria. A friend had a test recently just
because he could and was told if he got a text he was fine. If he got
a phone call, they would tell him what to do next - either could be
that he was positive or I guess the test could have been inconclusive
One person on radio yesterday got a call and was told the lab had
screwed up and she needed to take another test. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Clarke" 
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Sent:Thu, 14 May 2020 07:24:29 +1000
Subject:[LINK] NSW Health Notifications of Negative Virus Test results

 [ NSW Health wrote some software to automate the flow of negative 
 results from a pathology system out to the relevant mobile phone.

 [ Good.

 [ But am I being churlish in thinking this is a pretty simple
project, 
 and didn't need a suite of expensive organisations to be involved?

 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/how-an-sms-bot-helped-nsw-health-cut-covid-19-test-result-wait-times-548083

 ... a [sic] SMS text bot engine that automates the contact process
... 
 was released just weeks into the height of the pandemic, was
developed 
 by AWS, Deloitte, Microsoft and Mulesoft ...

 Bolevich said it had enabled the state’s laboratory information
system 
 to “feed a negative result through an SMS text bot engine … and
deliver 
 those negative results to patients”.

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