Medical services company MDS Mexico has launched a rapid COVID-xix testing service that uses blockchain engineering to verify results.

According to a Dominicus study from local media outlet iProUP news, MDS Mexico has launched a digital platform allowing its patients to access results that are updated in real-time. Results are delivered physically and feature a QR lawmaking that can be scanned to verify the results and access a patient's vaccination history on MDS United mexican states's blockchain.

MDS stated that it adopted blockchain to safeguard the results of clinical tests, protect patients' personal data and forestall the falsification of COVID-19 test results. MDS'due south website says:

"To avoid the falsification of negative results, nosotros began to certify the SARS-CoV-2 detection tests with blockchain technology and cryptographic signature, which protects the information in a unique, immutable, and unalterable QR Code that can be verified worldwide."

Testing results uploaded to MDS'southward blockchain also includes a cryptographic signature from the doctor who verified the outcome of the exam.

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MDS is not the first entity in Mexico to comprehend blockchain for digitized COVID-19 test results, with Mexico's National Chamber of Commerce (CANACO) announcing a land-backed initiative to digitize vaccination passports in partnership with individual blockchain technology firm Xertify in April.

In August, blockchain industry representatives in Australia also pushed for the introduction of a blockchain-based vaccine registry to stem the proliferation of apocryphal COVID-19 vaccine passports online.