Forbes July 24, 2020
As hospitals adjust to the new Health and Human Services (HHS) platform called the Coronavirus Data Hub to report critical Covid-19 information, HHS Chief Information Officer José L. Arrieta confirmed that the agency is using blockchain technology to track Covid-19 hospitalization data. In an interview today, Arrieta stated how this will “allow for faster clinical trials, protect citizens and flatten the curve on this pandemic, so we can recover from this pandemic using blockchain technology, a distributed ledger technology.”
Earlier this week, Arrieta noted how HHS Protect, a platform for authenticating data, is more comprehensive than that previously provided by the CDC. “At HHS Protect, every day, every data element we receive is hashed with a time-stamped record of the...
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