Connect: Digital Contact Tracing Platform
Dr. Sachin Shetty collaborated with Sentara to develop a block-chain empowered digital contact tracing platform to address the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus.
ABOUT THE PROJECT—
The spread of the virus is too rapid to be contained by manual and inefficient human contact tracing activities.
Problem: The spread of COVID-19 continues to increase fatality rates and exhaust the capacity of healthcare providers. Efforts to preventing transmission of the virus among members of society remains a high priority. The current efforts to quarantine involve social distancing, monitoring, and tracking infected patients; however, the spread of the virus is too rapid to be contained by manual and inefficient human contact tracing activities.
How We Are Helping: To address this challenge, VMASC researchers in collaboration with Sentara have developed “Connect”, a blockchain-empowered digital contact tracing platform that can leverage positive case information and notify individuals in the immediate proximity, thereby reducing the rate at which the virus could spread. This would particularly be effective if a sufficient amount of people use the platform and benefit from the targeted recommendations. The recommendations would be made in a privacy-preserving fashion and help to contain the spread of the virus, hopefully reducing the need for an extended period of quarantine.
Connect: Digital Contact Tracing Platform
CONNECT: DIGITAL CONTACT TRACING PLATFORM
The spread of the virus is too rapid to be contained by manual and inefficient human contact tracing activities.
Problem: The spread of COVID-19 continues to increase fatality rates and exhaust the capacity of healthcare providers. Efforts to preventing transmission of the virus among members of society remains a high priority. The current efforts to quarantine involve social distancing, monitoring, and tracking infected patients; however, the spread of the virus is too rapid to be contained by manual and inefficient human contact tracing activities.
How We Are Helping: To address this challenge, VMASC researchers in collaboration with Sentara have developed “Connect”, a blockchain-empowered digital contact tracing platform that can leverage positive case information and notify individuals in the immediate proximity, thereby reducing the rate at which the virus could spread. This would particularly be effective if a sufficient amount of people use the platform and benefit from the targeted recommendations. The recommendations would be made in a privacy-preserving fashion and help to contain the spread of the virus, hopefully reducing the need for an extended period of quarantine.
