How ProofEasy QR Codes Can Solve the Integration Challenge in Covid19 Reports?

Utilizing Blockchain in Covid-19 Reports

COVID-19 vaccination certificates and reports are important documents as governments of different countries, public health departments & transport systems develop policies for  Manage healthcare systems, facilitating travel, and even Return to work. Since it is the case, the number of fake and unauthorized reports is on the rise. People are looking for shortcuts and forging the covid19 reports.

To ensure the authenticity of the reports, the concentration is now on verification and verifiable reports and here, one way in which it can be done is with QR codes. You can scan these codes to check the details. In some countries, it has become mandatory to have QR codes on Covid test reports for the authorities to verify the information. Laboratories can use QR codes to ensure the authenticity and security of the covid19 reports.

Quick response (QR) codes are everywhere from device installs, jewellery packaging, restaurant menus, and more. Though these are emerging up quicker than any trends, it could surprise you to learn that they were developed in the year 1994.  However, it took a global COVID19 pandemic to finally make the QR code much pertinent to the everyday user.

But are General QR Codes Secure?

With the explosion of laboratories and the copious use of the franchise model to expand the workings of regional and national chains, the requirement to verify the authenticity of a laboratory COVID19 report has increased. You frequently hear about the cases where the collected sample is not sent further for proper testing, but a false Covid19-report gets produced and money collected from unsuspecting customers.

Such a thing has grave implications as it can end up in harmful diagnosis, inadequate or expensive insurance, and is a reputation danger for the genuine laboratories. It is, however, quite simple to tackle this problem by making sure that all authentic covid19 reports are system-generated centrally and can get validated by anyone in a general manner to verify the authenticity and even the data.

Anyone can use the QR code to capture the data on the Covid19 report of a patient before it gets printed either physically or electronically. In addition, the QR code can also have the digital signature of the issuing laboratory so that a phony or rogue franchise cannot develop a fake or tampered copy. It can next be validated by the customer or their doctor or even the insurance agency and the verified contents can get used for diagnosis and insurance.

Presently, general QR codes are becoming the most extensively used measures across all industries, but this growing technology is weak on security. The technology experts argue that QR codes could trigger significantly more damage to your safety in general. Some of the main concerns are as under:

Easy to Clone

The ease with which anybody can produce and distribute QR codes has attracted not only businesses and politicians, but illegal groups too.  Anyone can easily manipulate QR codes to redirect buyers to fake platform to ensure the authenticity of a Covid19 report document, hence offering a false sense of security and safety.

Moreover, the general design of QR codes makes it approximately impossible for the bare eye to differentiate one from another. Thus, a person can replace legitimate codes with illegitimate ones, both cheaply and easily.

Scam and Cybersecurity Threats

Universally, thousands of people contempt the fact that QR codes infer threats that are even more dangerous than forged emails and websites. Attacking, is the procedure of replacing an authentic QR code with a manipulated one. It redirects an induvial to a false website. It is just one of the manifold vehicles for making attacks such as phishing or facilitating the entry of software viruses. Moreover, users are in danger of exfiltrating information like personal or banking data from a phone device.

Mobile phone attacks threaten not just individuals or businesses but even that politicians and public servants. As an example, if decision-makers take a QR code as a security feature for a project such as the COVID-19 initiative; people at large could also be at risk of a security breach.

Can There be a Secure QR Code?

Secure QR codes like Proofeasy  QR Codes are safe as opposed to general QR codes. ProofeEasy QR codes are powered by VeriDoc Global’s patented technology.  General QR codes can lead to phishing and overlook all the hard work and benefits of trying to capture and present authentic information. Hence laboratories require to integrate Secure QR codes into the covid 19 reports.

What Makes Secure QR Codes Different?

Secure QR  codes like Proofeasy  Global QR Codes are different from general QR Codes. It is because of the usage of its dynamic Blockchain technology after a QR code gets scanned. This makes the overall system absolute, incorruptible, self-expandable, and self-patchable, without any loopholes or chances of failure.

In general type of QR Codes, there is a point to client-server configurations. It can lead to confusion, distortion, and asks for high maintenance.  But when you employ secure QR codes, they point to systems using a decentralized network configuration. In this concept, the data gets stored as blocks on every node associated with the network. This increase in the network makes it hard for anyone to alter or target it.

In a secure QR code, there is also a unique hash technology that makes it difficult for anyone to hack the system as the hacker would need multiple computers to manipulate or modify the data. These hash values are as powerful and proof as the fingerprint and DNAs mentioned in a file. Hence, you can never find two hash values as similar.

What happens is, in case the document experiences any big or small change, the design of hash value is such that it gets changed right away. This cryptographical algorithm is the main ingredient of Proofeasy  QR codes. You can be confident as a laboratory that nobody messes up with the Covid19 reports.

Where to Start From?

You need to integrate the Secure QR code with your laboratory information system or LIS-
  • Create a genuine QR code and then add it to the reports
  • The developer will integrate the API with your LIS
  • You will generate the reports the way you always did. But they would now own the Secure QR code that one can scan to authenticate the information on demand.
However, if LIS integration is not applicable,  there are many manual or batch integration methods that are available. Please contact us for more details.

Conclusion

To sum up, QR codes are the future-proof way to integrate security in your COVID19 reports. Your laboratory can get in touch with us at Proofeasy and we will guide you throughout for secure and easy-to-use covid test reports.