Because the Privacy Guarantor investigates the Stramezzi anti-Covid treatment app
An investigation by the Privacy Guarantor has opened on the app created by the Covid Healer association
The smartphone app created by Dr. Andrea Stramezzi to treat Covid at home under the lighthouse of the Privacy Guarantor.
Today the Guarantor for the protection of personal data has opened an investigation on an app created by the Covid Healer Onlus Association to offer advice and health care, processing the data of "patient users" and "health professionals". It makes known the same authority headed by Pasquale Stanzione.
Andrea Stramezzi is the doctor who founded the non-profit Covid Healer ("Heal Covid") which has become an App with the aim of supporting and healing Covid patients at home.
The app, which can be downloaded from the Play Store for a few days, is aimed at those who, suffering from Covid, need to find a doctor to treat them at home.
"In order to assess the lawfulness of the processing of personal data carried out through the app, the legal basis of this activity and the purposes pursued by the Association will be investigated, compliance with the basic principles regarding the protection of personal data" , let the authority know.
All the details.
WHAT IS THE C-HEALER APP OF THE COVID HEALER ONLUS ASSOCIATION
It is called C-Healer and it is the app connected to the non-profit Covid Healer founded by Dr. Andrea Stramezzi that allows those who are positive to the virus to send a request for assistance at the first symptoms of the infection.
An app to connect doctors and patients and thus allow the monitoring of Covid disease from home.
Stramezzi presented the app on the occasion of the International Covid Summit, the second day of which took place in the Senate on Monday 13 September. “What's more, the app will also help doctors. The therapeutic schemes studied in collaboration with medical colleagues from all over the world and validated in these 18 months will be shared. Depending on the severity of the symptoms reported by the patient, the app will suggest the most suitable scheme and the doctor can adapt and personalize it for each patient, where necessary. The app will also provide doctors with a constantly updated database, so that they can access statistics on the effectiveness of the various drugs ”, Andrea Stramezzi explained to Affaritaliani last September.
THE REQUESTED DATA
Once downloaded, the app requires registration via email and password. After that, to activate the account on the C-Healer app it is necessary to enter numerous data: address and identity card, front and back as you can see from the image.
THE DECISION OF THE GUARANTOR OF PRIVACY
The Authority recalls that the Italian and European legislation provides for a general prohibition on processing the data of "particular categories of data", including those on health, with the exception of some cases explicitly indicated – for example for reasons of public interest or for purposes of preventive medicine, diagnosis, assistance or health therapy – and only after the adoption of particular guarantees.
For this reason, in the light of the first elements collected on the specific case, the Guarantor has decided to verify whether all the prescriptions and protections provided for the treatments connected to the use of medical apps have been respected.
And hence the proceeding launched against the Covid Healer app.
THE RESEARCH OF DOCTOR STRAMEZZI
The app is currently free.
But “even though several volunteers have offered to collaborate on this project, there are significant costs to be incurred to ensure that the final app is completely free for users. So we founded the Covid Healer non-profit organization to be able to collect donations and carry out the project ”, Stramezzi stressed again to Affaritaliani .
Furthermore, "thanks to donations, the Covid Healer association plans to fund a part of research to identify the factors that lead to serious illness, so as to be able to know first if a patient is at high risk or not", said one volunteer at Affaritaliani .
THE THESIS OF HYDROXYCLORICHINE
Andrea Stramezzi hit the news for his presence on talk shows with the thesis of treating the Covid-19 disease through anti-inflammatories.
As we read in DonnaModerna in a report this summer, "the doctor, on duty at Malpensa airport in health tracking and checks, explains that he has treated over 1,000 patients" with known and inexpensive drugs ", including also hydroxychlorichine. "It is a drug used against malaria and created for autoimmune diseases, such as Covid in its acute phase, when the" enemy "is no longer the Sars-Cov2 virus but the antibodies themselves, which become harmful against our own organism. due to an abnormal and excessive response from the immune system. We have seen, not only in Italy, that hydroxychloroquine is an effective drug, but only if taken in the first week of illness, precisely to avoid reaching the notorious severe cytokine storm of Covid ”explains Stramezzi”.
At “ Non è l'Arena”, the broadcast conducted by Massimo Giletti on La7 , in October Stramezzi claimed to have treated over 1500 patients with anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/perche-il-garante-della-privacy-indaga-app-delle-cure-anti-covid-di-stramezzi/ on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:42:55 +0000.