NIH Digital Health Solutions for COVID-19: IBM COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Data Exchange Tools

The goal of this project was to develop both contact tracing and secure data exchange tools. The contact tracing solution securely combines data from a variety of sources (including manual self-report data, mobile device surveys) to enable tracing of contacts with individuals that have tested positive for COVID-19 or have been exposed to COVID-19. The data exchange solution is a secure mechanism that empowers users to control the data they share in the course of their return to work, including the ability to provide a verifiable health status claim. These tools were used by an employer to evaluate the risk of allowing individuals to return to normal activities and also the ability to trace user contact with individuals diagnosed with, or suspected of having contracted, COVID-19.