[Blockchain] British hospitals rely on blockchain to track COVID-19 vaccine
Reuters learned that British hospitals are using blockchain to track the supply of COVID-19 vaccine. Several hospitals headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick in central England are using distributed ledger technology to monitor refrigerators containing COVID-19 vaccines.
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Payment gateway Everyware said that blockchain will help keep data safe and share data between various supply chains. For example, vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech must be transported and stored "at ultra-cold temperatures or on dry ice", and in this case can only be stored for up to five days.
Tom Screen, Technical Director of Everyware, said that with the help of the blockchain architecture, the company can verify the data it collects "from every device."
He added: “We make sure that the data is accurate at the source, and then we can verify that it has never been changed and has never been tampered with.”
iHodl reported in August 2020 that Jeju Island, the most popular tourist destination in South Korea, began to track the spread of coronavirus infections with ICONLOOP's blockchain technology Decentralized Identity (DID). Tourists can use a mobile app called Zzeung to register destinations and businesses on Jeju Island and store their data secretly on the blockchain.
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