Inspiration
With no clear end in sight, the novel coronavirus has killed thousands, halted the economy and stolen countless experiences, jobs and memories. Contact tracing, or figuring out who was exposed to someone who tests positive, could greatly benefit from technological assistance as it's nearly impossible to remember everyone you came within 6 feet of in the past 2 weeks. Apple and Google have teamed up to create a system where your phone would broadcast a unique identifier to everyone within 6 feet of you. Your phone would simultaneously collect this list and would then check it against some list of confirmed covid-cases. The problem we aim to solve is providing a highly trusted and accurate list of covid-cases for these contact tracing solutions to utilize.
What it does
Apple and Google have teamed up to create a system where your phone would broadcast a unique identifier to everyone within 6 feet of you. Your phone would simultaneously collect this list and would then check it against some list of confirmed covid-cases. The problem we aim to solve is providing a highly trusted and accurate list of covid-cases for these contact tracing solutions to utilize. Maintaining privacy is critical to ensuring wide-adoption. To that end, the contact tracing solution will likely generate random contact-tracing ID (CTIDs) every few hours to ensure that these CTIDs do not become a way to track someone's movements.
How we built it
Leveraging Epic's FHIR System (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), we link covid-19 test results to all contact-tracing ids generated by a user in the 2 weeks prior to their positive test.
Utilizing ArcBlock's DiD, decentralized identifier, we provide a simple, secure way for users to enroll in contact tracing and connect their contact-tracing ids to their hospital
Challenges we ran into
Setting up the API's and conceptualizing the entire contact tracing process to discover where we could use these technologies.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Integrating decentralized systems, front-end development and interfacing with a rich, multidimensional API to make real change
What we learned
The importance of documentation, and a ton of how the purposed contact tracing will be implemented.
What's next for https://github.com/amir656/did-connect-examples
Scaling up to meet the demand and earn the trust of every American with a smart phone
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