NSW aged care provider Pathways Residences has become the first to roll out the proximity detecting technology Contact Harald for both visitor check-in and COVID-19 contact tracing, with central Victorian provider Havilah also set to implement the Australian developed technology in the next week.
Contact Harald is a wearable, stand-alone card-to-card based contact tracing system that uses low energy Bluetooth technology. It has been designed as a workplace-based solution to assist contact tracers reduce the time between potential exposure, being tested and self-isolating.
It has been developed by financial technology firm Safedome but has been put through the RMIT Cisco Health Transformation Lab in Melbourne to adapt it for healthcare purposes.
