I&T IN COMBATING COVID-19

I&T IN COMBATING COVID-19

USE OF I&T IN COMBATING COVID-19

  • Continue to deploy home quarantine system “StayHomeSafe” to support home quarantine for people arriving in Hong Kong
  • Develop health codes to facilitate orderly resumption of travel between Hong Kong and other places
  • Encourage wider application of anti-microbial technology in public transport
  • Deploy the exposure notification system and mobile app “LeaveHomeSafe” for different trades and premises
  • Adopt technologies in public markets to enhance environmental hygiene
  • Continue to promote use of contactless payments in public markets
  • Use of robots and advanced technologies for airport terminal patrol, cleansing, disinfection and environmental monitoring
  • Introduce new or streamlined e-forms and linkages to various systems to further digitise health declaration processes and port health control
  • Continue to expand the functions of Hospital Authority’s “HA Go” mobile app to provide remote consultation using video conferencing technology and to prescribe clinical information for specific groups of patients, in addition to online booking of clinic appointments and payment
  • Established the LawTech Fund of $40 million to encourage and support the legal sector to adopt technologies
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  • Develop Common Spatial Data Infrastructure and Establish Geospatial Lab
  • Enhance “iAM Smart” applications to promote wider use of digital payments and remote on-boarding in the financial and other industries
  • Established the COVID-19 Online Dispute Resolution Scheme to provide businesses and the public with speedy and cost-effective online dispute resolution services