Patient Empowerment During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ensuring Safe and Fast Communication of Test Results: Implementation and Performance of a Tracking System

Gunnar Völkel   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Axel Fürstberger   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Julian D Schwab   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Silke D Werle   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Nensi Ikonomi   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Thomas Gscheidmeier   ² , MSc ;   Johann M Kraus   ¹ , PhD ;   Alexander Groß   ¹ , PhD ;   Martin Holderried   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Julien Balig   ¹ , MSc ;   Franz Jobst   ⁴ , MSc ;   Peter Kuhn   ⁵ , PhD ;   Klaus A Kuhn   ⁶ , PhD ;   Oliver Kohlbacher   ⁷ , PhD ;   Udo X Kaisers   ⁴ , MD ;   Thomas Seufferlein   ^{8 *} , MD ;   Hans A Kestler   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

² Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

³ Department of Medical Development and Quality Management, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

⁴ University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

⁵ Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

⁶ Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University of Munich, Ulm, Germany

⁷ Institute for Translational Bioinformatics, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

⁸ Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

*these authors contributed equally