{"id":1342,"date":"2021-08-01T06:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/links.sampledrive.in\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2021-08-01T06:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:55:42","slug":"sengkang-general-hospital-taps-tech-for-contact-tracing-even-before-covid-19-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Sengkang General Hospital taps tech for contact tracing even before Covid-19 arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.straitstimes.com.sg\/s3fs-public\/styles\/article_pictrure_780x520_\/public\/articles\/2021\/07\/26\/nfskh260721.jpg?itok=jCUopYlk&amp;timestamp=1627293219\" alt=\"Sengkang General Hospital's Real-Time Locating System works by tracing cards issued to hospital staff and wristband devices worn by patients.\" width=\"603\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; Even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit and contact tracing became the norm in Singapore, Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) was already on the trail of people who came in close contact with those who had infectious diseases such as chicken pox and tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of using Bluetooth tech like the\u00a0Government&#8217;s TraceTogether tool,\u00a0SKH has been using a mix of radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"nocx_paywall_area\">\n<div class=\"premium-read-more nocx_paywall st-bulleted\">\n<p class=\"pre-paywall-text\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; Even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit and contact tracing became the norm in Singapore, Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) was already on the trail of people who came in close contact with those who had infectious diseases such as chicken pox and tuberculosis. But instead of using Bluetooth tech like the\u00a0Government&#8217;s TraceTogether tool,\u00a0SKH has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/?p=1342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sengkang General Hospital taps tech for contact tracing even before Covid-19 arrival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poplinks.sbs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}