[ NSW Health wrote some software to automate the flow of negative results from a pathology system out to the relevant mobile phone.

[ Good.

[ But am I being churlish in thinking this is a pretty simple project, and didn't need a suite of expensive organisations to be involved?

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/how-an-sms-bot-helped-nsw-health-cut-covid-19-test-result-wait-times-548083

... a [sic] SMS text bot engine that automates the contact process ... was released just weeks into the height of the pandemic, was developed by AWS, Deloitte, Microsoft and Mulesoft ...

Bolevich said it had enabled the state’s laboratory information system to “feed a negative result through an SMS text bot engine … and deliver those negative results to patients”.


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