Mobile Application Guidance

Mobile application reference workflow

A suggested mobile application workflow is shown below. App developers have flexibility to modify the flow as appropriate to ensure (1) transparency in how data will be managed, (2) user has control over data, and (3) ease of use in taking the test and reporting results.

Digital testing applications should attempt to collect the following information from the user. This information should then be encoded in the test result message and sent to the hub:

Field	Data Entry Format	User Requirement (app requests all fields)
Age	Numeric; Populate based on date of birth if available	User entry required
Zip code	Numeric	User entry required
Date of test	Date	User entry required
Sex	Female \| Male \| Other	User entry optional
Race	American Indian or Alaska Native \| Asian \| Black or African American \| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander \| White \| Other	User entry optional
Ethnicity	Hispanic or Latino \| Not Hispanic or Latino	User entry optional
Are you symptomatic?	Yes \| No \| Unknown	User entry optional
Date of symptom onset	Date	Required to ask if 'Are you symptomatic' is 'Yes'; User entry optional.
First name*	Text	User entry optional
Middle name*	Text	User entry optional
Last name*	Text	User entry optional
Date of birth*	Date	User entry optional
Street address*	Text	User entry optional
City*	Text	User entry optional
State	Populate based on zip code	User entry optional
County	Text; Select from list based on zip code	User entry optional
Phone number*	Numeric	User entry optional
Email address*	Text	User entry optional

* The hub will remove these PII fields from the test result message before forwarding it to the federal health system HHS Protect .