UK-headquartered Everyware is reportedly utilizing public DLT network Hedera Hashgraph as a management solution for the UK’s National Health Service, to offer safekeeping for COVID-19 vaccine. 

Specifically, numerous of the commonly applied COVID-19 vaccines available currently reportedly need to be kept in ultra-cold conditions, to preserve its effectiveness – which poses as a major obstacle to public and private health services throughout the globe. 

To make sure the transparency and security of the supervising process, by parties involved in the UK-based distribution process for COVID-19 vaccine maintenance, Everyware will reportedly be equipping numerous NHS facilities with its asset tracking and monitoring software, employing the Hedera Consensus Service as a secure, distributed trust layer. 

The Hedera base layer reportedly makes a verifiable timestamp and ordering of events available throughout the vaccine supply chain, enabling safeguarded data sharing with different participants, associated with the vaccine delivery chain for healthcare centers – among them pharmaceutical providers, centralized storage facilities, and transportation firms.

“To date, other participants, e.g. pharmaceutical companies, have been communicated with via existing NHS channels. Onboarding third parties [to the vaccine monitoring system is] as simple as creating accounts for users and groups that have an interest in a particular set of assets. Additionally, using Hedera opens up opportunities for integration via the Hedera Consensus Service as a publish/subscribe broker; plus, deployment of mirror nodes.”

Previously, the Hedera-powered solution was reportedly rolled out to a particularly chosen group of NHS centers, throughout the South Warwickshire area. 

“Typically, on site, we would deploy sensors on the individual refrigerators (or cabinets, for room temperature drugs), which send data via a local mesh network to an Everyware Smart Hub. As well as providing local alerts, the Smart Hub is an Internet gateway for devices to connect to the cloud platform.”