Business Wire August 31, 2021
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Leidos is fighting COVID-19 through blockchain-based data security, with help from Intel’s Pandemic Response Technology Initiative

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–What’s New: Leidos, a Fortune 500 science and technology leader, is using blockchain-based data security running on Intel technology to accelerate and secure contact tracing through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) MicrobeTrace Next platform. This project is part of Intel’s Pandemic Response Technology Initiative (PRTI), which provides grants to hundreds of ventures aimed at combatting the coronavirus through accelerated access to technology.

How It Works: Historically, contact tracing has been paper-based, requiring public health officials to fill out hard-copy forms and possibly even transcribe the data to a computer system. With the emergence of COVID-19, a need to quickly...

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Topics: Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Health IT, Healthcare System, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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