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As more workers return to the office, companies are considering ways to track their employees to help prevent the spread of coronavirus among their workforce. 
Abdul Monam's curator insight,
June 21, 2020 9:38 AM
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Paula Spring's curator insight,
June 21, 2020 4:05 PM
It seems to be what's wanted to be used to monitor who has COVID-19 and who doesn't. This would be those who have tested positive, those who have not been tested, and those in recovery. By contract monitoring, every move made can be calculated. The results could mean that persons found infected could be made to relocate to a forced quarantine. The information could present pattern motion as a whole. Thus, helping calculate where higher infection rates populate and helping to further investigation as to the cause/causes and spread of COVID-19.
Another speculation, it could help provide a system that incorporates police to be able to enforce that known infected persons are regulated to ensure that home quarantine is followed. It could also help monitor, recovered cases in the possibility of relapse. Relapse in regards to future contact with active positive cases, and the physical preparedness to relapse or not relapse. 
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June 23, 2020 1:12 AM
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For the past several months, Nasr has led a team working on several proofs of concept based on blockchain technology, with an eye toward building real applications next year. Most are geared toward better public health surveillance, which could include using a blockchain to more efficiently manage data during a crisis or to better track opioid abuse.
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WHY IT MATTERS: bitcoin fraud, price volatility and other hacks have given bad press to the blockchain - the technology behind the bitcoin - when in fact it is the real revolution. Here is a very good use case for this new technology: using blockchain to send personal, private, confidential health information in a secure and protected way for the good of man kind.
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In an ongoing effort with Boston-area hospitals, including the Boston Medical Center and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we found that we could predict hospitalizations due to these two chronic diseases about a year in advance with an accuracy rate of as much as 82%. This will give care providers the chance to intervene much earlier and head off hospitalizations.
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WHY IT MATTERS: would you allow an invasion of your privacy to improve your life expectancy? I assume most of us would say YES if assured that the information would remain secure and private. What technologies need to be put in place? Do we need government regulations to protect everyone equally? These are the real questions behind advances such as this one. Moreover are there solutions using blockchain technology to allow for this to become possible?
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Alphabet’s artificial intelligence outfit, DeepMind, plans to build a blockchain-style system that will carefully track how every shred of patient data is used. The company, which is rapidly expanding its health-care initiatives, has announced that it will build a tool that it calls Verifiable Data Audit during the course of this year. The idea: allow hospitals, and potentially even patients, to see exactly who is using health-care records, and for what purpose. By logging how every piece of patient data is used, the company hopes to leave behind an indelible audit trail.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT For everyone concerned about privacy in the digital world, the mega digital record would provide visibility into what is currently a completely opaque process. But far more reaching is the possibility to extend this audit trail to all our personal data.
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Physicians typically have access to sensitive personal information on large numbers of patients, which makes their devices prime targets for hackers looking to steal that information.
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3 simple steps that doctors - and everyone else - should use to secure their information and keep them private.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Is there anything more personal than your medical information? I assume not and thus would expect my medical professional to be aware of these 3 basic security principles and respect them strictly. However, it may not be the case and I would recommend this sort of information to be built into the standard medical practice curriculum because I would not want my doctor's laptop to be the weak link in my medical record transmission chain.
For other articles on this field: http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/topic/cybersecurity
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WHY IT MATTERS:Â yes the new normal may include being tracked by governments and employers for contact tracing. At some point the data will need to be be stored somewhere and the question will become: where is it stored? is it secure? is privacy protected?