Health Certificates on blockchain
With many countries facing lockdowns and/or imposing movement restrictions on their citizens, the question arises if a negative PCR or Antibody test could free individuals from such measures. With the start of the Covid-19 vaccination programs, these questions have...
Health Certificates on blockchain
With many countries facing lockdowns and/or imposing movement restrictions on their citizens, the question arises if a negative PCR or Antibody test could free individuals from such measures. With the start of the Covid-19 vaccination programs, these questions have...
Improve treatment of hemophilia patients with CENTIVA LIFE app
Poor data quality and a lack of treatment monitoring in everyday life make it difficult to allocate the appropriate treatment and medication to hemophilia patients. HIT Foundation, together with a Patient Advocacy Group and a Swiss-based pharma company implemented the...
Testnet reaching 1 million blocks
The foundation has been running a Testnet of its own since July. With a Blocktime of 15 sec. it is expected to exceed one million blocks by January 11th. At the moment it hosts transactions of a Covid-19 test registry.
dHealth Network launch right after Symbol goes live
The dHealth Network builds on the new NEM core engine Symbol. Therefore, we decided to launch our network only after Symbol has gone live in February. Although our Testnet has been running stable for months we would like to wait if any issues occur during the Symbol...
Symbol launch postponed until February 2021
During the 500+ Nodes Performance Test and the Testnet Update there have been problems found on the Testnet as a result of the stress test. As a consequence NEM Core Devs, NGL Test team, and NGL exec have decided to postponed Symbol Launch to February. The exact date...
Rabies Vaccine Tracking with Blockchain in Mali and Ivory Coast
HIT Foundation's Head of Engineering Vega Paithankar attended the second project meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Dog mediated rabies is killing 60’000 people every year. HIT Foundation is part of the consortium under the lead of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health...
Management of Respiratory Diseases with the Centiva Life app
Beginning December the Vietnam National Lung Hospital (NLH) in Hanoi started to use HIT Foundation's Centiva Life app for the management of patients suffering from tuberculosis. Patients receive Digital Health Points when filling out questionnaires which are presented...
CENTIVA 360: Tracking viruses – not people!
A Private-Public Partnership (PPP) has been established in Basel, Switzerland. The University of Basel, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Novartis Global Health, and HIT Foundation have partnered to develop an app that addresses the...
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