Blockchain will track coronavirus data

IBM and Oracle are developing a blockchain platform to collect data on the COVID-19 pandemic.

The current pandemic is coming ina lot of unfiltered information. To optimize and authenticate such an enormous amount of data, the World Health Organization has partnered with tech giants IBM and Oracle to create an open source blockchain-based data hub.

The MiPasa project will function as an information highway for the coronavirus.Hacera, the firm responsible for creating the solution, is confident that the projectwill serve to organize and target the huge flow of COVID-19 data from around the world.

Hacera CEO Jonathan Levy said that MiPasa will continue to evolve to support more data analysis tools.

Hyperledger Fabric technology is used to collect and quantify data that can alsobe studied using a variety of analysis tools to accurately detect coronavirus hotspots.Healthcare organizations will not be able to cope with such a global pandemic without the right data, analysis, and understanding of the situation. 

Among the project partners are the National Health Commission of China, the Government of Canada, Microsoft, and the University ofThis made it possible to form a consortium in record time.Very soon, it is planned to add a set of applications to the platform to track and transmit data about the coronavirus via iPad for users.