Central Texas company develops technology to verify COVID-19 tests
As Texas begins to reopen businesses, keeping everyone safe is a priority.
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Researchers at Quantum Materials Corp. have developed a program to get people back to work safely.
“The value of testing is only good if you have a way to authenticate the testing and the test results,” said Stephen Squires, the CEO and founder of Quantum Materials Corp.
Squires said the technology was initially used to develop a track-and-trace system to identify counterfeit products, but he saw the ability to help the medical community and QDX Health ID was born.
“We are two-plus years ahead of everyone, using a system that can track who had the virus, who has the virus, who doesn't have it, where did they get tested, where the test was provided,” said Les Paull, DBA, the director of global sales for Quantum Materials Corp.
The technology will certify who is cleared to go back to work and who needs further testing. It will also help determine which tests are giving more accurate results.
“You can have 20 different test kits and unless we can tell which ones are actually performing at a high efficiency, one may get a false positive or a negative. With a kit that has a 50% accuracy, there's no way of knowing if that person is immune or not, so this data system will be able to significantly reduce the errors associated with many of these test kits,” Paull said.
All you'll need is the app. Color coding makes it easy to read and understand.
“It allows you, on your cellphone, to show that you are either immune or 'I don't have the virus,'” Squires said.
“People can just show the green light on the app. 'I'm clear, I can go' and then we know then we are safe,” Delgado said.
It provides peace of mind for people like Delgado, who is still wondering how she contracted COVID-19.
“That sense of safety and security is paramount, and we have to be able to give that back to people without a false sense of that. It's got to be genuine,” Delgado said.
The QDX Health ID and the technology associated with it is HIPAA-compliant, so no one will get your personal information. And the cost for something like this is reasonable: around $2. Company leaders are in talks with State and federal governments around the globe.
As Texas begins to reopen businesses, keeping everyone safe is a priority.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/health/coro...15850b52fc
Here is the last half of the news artilcle-
Researchers at Quantum Materials Corp. have developed a program to get people back to work safely.
“The value of testing is only good if you have a way to authenticate the testing and the test results,” said Stephen Squires, the CEO and founder of Quantum Materials Corp.
Squires said the technology was initially used to develop a track-and-trace system to identify counterfeit products, but he saw the ability to help the medical community and QDX Health ID was born.
“We are two-plus years ahead of everyone, using a system that can track who had the virus, who has the virus, who doesn't have it, where did they get tested, where the test was provided,” said Les Paull, DBA, the director of global sales for Quantum Materials Corp.
The technology will certify who is cleared to go back to work and who needs further testing. It will also help determine which tests are giving more accurate results.
“You can have 20 different test kits and unless we can tell which ones are actually performing at a high efficiency, one may get a false positive or a negative. With a kit that has a 50% accuracy, there's no way of knowing if that person is immune or not, so this data system will be able to significantly reduce the errors associated with many of these test kits,” Paull said.
All you'll need is the app. Color coding makes it easy to read and understand.
“It allows you, on your cellphone, to show that you are either immune or 'I don't have the virus,'” Squires said.
“People can just show the green light on the app. 'I'm clear, I can go' and then we know then we are safe,” Delgado said.
It provides peace of mind for people like Delgado, who is still wondering how she contracted COVID-19.
“That sense of safety and security is paramount, and we have to be able to give that back to people without a false sense of that. It's got to be genuine,” Delgado said.
The QDX Health ID and the technology associated with it is HIPAA-compliant, so no one will get your personal information. And the cost for something like this is reasonable: around $2. Company leaders are in talks with State and federal governments around the globe.
