VeChain Recognized in Peer-Reviewed Study for Role in COVID-19 Healthcare Response

• VeChain and similar platforms helped manage vaccine inventory, combat counterfeit products, and improve collaboration between global health authorities.
• Researchers recommend integrating blockchain into national and global health infrastructures to boost pandemic preparedness.

A new peer-reviewed academic study has spotlighted VeChain as one of the many blockchain platforms that played a role in improving healthcare systems’ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Published in ‘Blockchain in Healthcare Today’, the study covered responses provided by primary healthcare during the crisis and potential implementation of blockchain to improve pandemic response preparedness.

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The authors of the study, hailing from institutions in Türkiye, Canada, and the UK, analyzed 1,885 articles on the research in primary healthcare carried out during the pandemic. Their bibliometric analysis was able to determine both the issues and the technological tools that they may use to alleviate the same in future outbreaks.

Specifically, the paper said:

“Applications such as Hashlog, VeChain, the Public Health Blockchain Consortium (PHBC) platform, and Hyperchain were used during the COVID-19 pandemic for various purposes.”

The uses included keeping track of vaccine inventory to managing secure health data.

The authors stressed that blockchain provides decentralized, transparent, secure, and immutable storage of data. These features are increasingly gaining importance when there is a need to speedily share information in a reliable manner, as mentioned in our previous story.

Regarding its work on COVID-19, systems such as VeChain have proved that they have the capabilities of enhancing the traceability of vaccine manufacturing and distribution. It also helped in preventing counterfeit products and enabling more efficient collaboration between global health authorities.

According to the report, “rapid access to accurate and reliable health data is vital” during pandemics. Thus, the use of blockchain has the potential to deliver real-time data to all concerned parties as well as ensuring that privacy is maintained among users, a factor that cannot be easily combined on traditional data systems.

How VeChain Has Helped the Health Industry

Previously, VeChain’s blockchain infrastructure has been applied to healthcare for authenticity verification of the product, tracking of cold-chain logistics, and data integrity. Such capabilities were also found applicable towards solving the disruptions and bottlenecks in international medical supply chains during the pandemic.

The researchers state that such applications cannot be viewed as crisis responses. Instead, they suggest incorporating blockchain into national and global health systems to increase preparedness towards “future pandemics.” It is especially domestic in handy for vaccine administration, safe data-sharing, and misinformation.

They also call for a “nationally coordinated partnership” of academia, industry, and health authorities to scale blockchain use to provide secure communication and collaborate with research in the field. Further, they expect the World Health Organization ideally to be the head of this program.

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