SINGAPORE – Organisations searching for a hassle-free technique of amassing Covid-19 swab check outcomes and data from their employees can now use an internet platform developed by the Authorities to take action.
Often known as Sync, the platform permits corporations to retrieve outcomes of swab exams taken by workers, in addition to their vaccination statuses.
It’s free to be used and was developed by Open Authorities Merchandise, a division of the Authorities Expertise Company, in collaboration with the Ministry of Well being.
The platform was made publicly obtainable for all organisations on Tuesday (Feb 15), after a gentle launch final November.
It may be accessed by a browser, similar to Google Chrome, by customers with a legitimate Singpass account or by organisations utilizing Corppass.
Staff utilizing Sync should first consent to the platform sharing their vaccination standing, in addition to outcomes of antigen speedy exams (ARTs) and polymerase chain response exams with their organisations.
Such info not solely contains outcomes of swab exams performed at clinics, hospitals and different authorized centres – which is retrieved from a central Covid-19 database related to the platform – but in addition outcomes of self-administered ARTs that the employees had uploaded to the platform.
Such info is consolidated into day by day studies, that are then despatched by Sync to the related organisations.
However the workers can select to take away their consent for the information to be shared to an organisation at any time, similar to in conditions when they’re altering jobs.
Open Authorities Merchandise mentioned employees sometimes self-declare their check outcomes and vaccination data to their employers.
That is an administratively onerous course of, particularly for these working at a number of corporations – the place their data require updating and validating throughout completely different platforms and organisations, it added.
“Employers, then again, could not have essentially the most well timed information for the early detection of Covid-19 optimistic instances within the office to assist include the unfold of the virus,” it mentioned.
“Moreover, members of the general public have expressed a need for higher management over how they share Covid-19 information with organisations.”
Open Authorities Merchandise famous that employers in high-risk sectors lack a scalable manner of amassing consent and holding data up-to-date.
“We got here up with the thought of Sync to allow workers to provide consent for employers to entry particular data on a subscription foundation, in order that they don’t must undergo the trouble of resubmitting data or updating a number of organisations when statuses change,” it mentioned.
