Perhaps why Apple is hiring nurses... Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology

(SANTA CLARA, CA) Apple and Google are partnering to provide COVID-19 contact tracing to enable case-based intervention across the world. Job postings for clinical work are increasingly found from Google and Apple. For instance, NurseRounds has identified this job posting from Apple for a Nurse. Google and Apple, among many technology companies has been increasing its hiring spree of clinical technologists clinicians who are able to work in a multidisciplinary team with engineers and innovators. Nurses are likely be to extremely adept at these roles given their day job as well as the skills they have honed over the years working on the frontlines with patients to many other healthcare professionals, business leaders, administrators, and more.More from Apple and Google on their healthcare efforts on COVID contact tracing: Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design.Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through close proximity to affected individuals, public health organizations have identified contact tracing as a valuable tool to help contain its spread. A number of leading public health authorities, universities, and NGOs around the world have been doing important work to develop opt-in contact tracing technology. To further this cause, Apple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Given the urgent need, the plan is to implement this solution in two st