DigitalHealth: Code for Ireland’s Covid Tracker app given to global public health project

July 23, 2020

The code for Ireland’s Covid Tracker app has been published as part of an open source programme to help global public health authorities tackle the pandemic. Ireland’s Health Service Executive has provided…

Business Insider: Ireland’s contact-tracing app has done so well that US states want to use it

July 22, 2020

Ireland’s COVID-19 contact tracing app has been so successful that officials from other countries, including the US, want to use it. Ireland’s app, which launched on July 7, and is called COVID…

HealthcareITNews: Linux Foundation Public Health projects first focused on Google-Apple Exposure Notification API

July 22, 2020

The Linux Foundation has launched a new project to harness open source software to help global public health agencies fight back against COVID-19 and prepare for future public health challenges. WHY IT…

Apple Insider: Linux Foundation launches new initiative to fight COVID-19 with Apple-Google API

July 21, 2020

The Linux Foundation on Monday announced a new initiative to leverage open source tech, including the Apple-Google Exposure Notification API, to combat coronavirus. At first, the Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) project…

ITPro: Linux Foundation open-sources coronavirus tracing apps

July 21, 2020

The Linux Foundation has launched two contact tracing systems as part of a public health initiative which uses open source technology to help government agencies fight the spread of coronavirus across the…

ZDNet: Open source and health leaders join forces to fight coronavirus

July 20, 2020

When coronavirus appeared, open-source developers turned their efforts to defeat it. Now, The Linux Foundation is bringing together corporate open-source and public health authorities (PHAs) leaders to fight COVID-19 in the Linux…

TechRepublic: Linux Foundation announces open source exposure notification apps initiative to combat COVID-19

July 20, 2020

The Linux Foundation introduced its latest project that uses open source technologies to help public health authorities (PHAs) fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) initiative, announced on Monday, focuses…

SDxCentral: Cisco, IBM, VMware Tap Open Source to Fight COVID-19

July 20, 2020

Cisco, IBM, and VMware are among a handful of vendors partnering with the Linux Foundation on an initiative using open source technologies to help public health authorities in their fight against the ongoing…

The Irish Times: HSE donates contact tracing app to public health project

July 20, 2020

Ireland has donated the code for its contact tracing app to the Linux Foundation Public Health initiative as part of an attempt to suppress the coronavirus pandemic globally. The Health Services Executive confirmed it…

Silicon Republic: Source code of Covid Tracker Ireland app goes global with Linux project

July 20, 2020

The Linux Foundation Public Health initiative has chosen the Covid Tracker Ireland app as one of its first two open-source Covid-19 projects. Since its launch, more than 1.3m people have downloaded the Covid…