Launch of HealthyAmerica Lets People Securely Share COVID-19 Testing Results
August 06 2020 - 8:00AM
To support U.S. efforts to move forward safely and confidently in
the wake of COVID-19, TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) and its partners are
developing the HealthyAmericaTM solution. HealthyAmerica gives
people the power to securely share COVID-19 testing results while
maintaining individual privacy, helping businesses and schools to
minimize risk and reopen with greater confidence.
HealthyAmerica combines TransUnion’s verified data identity with
confirmed test results through CLX Health, which indicates the
presence of illness and/or the existence of COVID-19 antibodies.
The results, when received from a national network of
CLIA-certified laboratories performing FDA-approved tests, are
displayed in a simple application. The solution will easily adapt
to changes in testing and COVID-19 care management, including the
ultimate development and use of a vaccine. This initiative is being
led by TransUnion Healthcare and does not utilize any credit
information.
Businesses and schools seeking to welcome back their employees
and students as well as airlines, hotels and other organizations
and events across the country will be able to use the solution to
help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other communicable
diseases.
“People want to protect their health and lives and they want the
country to open,” said David Wojczynski, President of TransUnion
Healthcare. “With HealthyAmerica, we can help them do both. The app
helps people share their vital information when they choose to do
so. This helps avoid risks related to COVID-19 in everyday
interactions while maintaining privacy for individuals.”
HealthyAmerica will be rapidly deployed and delivered in a
simple application with a user experience and process readily
accessible by individuals, employers, businesses and schools. The
solution provides real-time access to an established network of
clinical laboratories, major hospital systems and Federally
Qualified Health Clinics, which combined perform over 90% of all
lab transactions in the United States.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the world’s health
– physical, mental and economic. This partnership was created
leveraging each organization’s expertise to help make the country
safer by deploying a solution individuals and businesses can access
to make decisions and evaluate health risk based on real-time
information,” said Joseph Gonzalez, Chief Strategy Officer of
SiriusIQ, part of CLX Health. “Having the ability to assess the
risk of where you’ve been and where you want to go is the
cornerstone of what we all need to help mitigate the spread of the
virus and help the economy to open safely and back to
capacity.”
How does the HealthyAmerica solution work?
Organizations utilizing the solution to help ensure the safety
of customers, employees and/or students will prompt individuals to
download the HealthyAmerica app. If the user agrees, they can then
schedule testing at a certified laboratory near them. Once testing
has been completed, results will be added to HealthyAmerica and the
individual may choose whether to share their status-verified QR
code.
An optional feature of the app leverages publicly-available
“heat maps” of known cases of COVID-19 and adds the general and
de-identified location of users who opt in, allowing to see their
proximity to known COVID-19 viral areas which they may have visited
or may be planning to visit. The Viral Encounter Risk Assessment
(VERA) feature creates the most current map of virus location so
people can better assess risk of visiting specific locations and
potentially reduce the number of people exposed to the virus.
HealthyAmerica is fully operational for those who do not choose
this option.
“HealthyAmerica enables individuals to protect themselves from
unnecessary exposure to COVID-19 and to share their health status
with the schools and businesses they choose to. TransUnion, a
leading global provider of risk and information solutions, is well
suited to provide the data identity functionality of this
solution,” added Jim Bohnsack, Senior Vice President and Chief
Strategy Officer for TransUnion Healthcare.
For more information about HealthyAmerica and to request the
public memo and presentation, please visit
www.transunion.com/healthyamerica.
About TransUnion (NYSE: TRU)TransUnion is a
global information and insights company that makes trust possible
in the modern economy. We do this by providing a comprehensive
picture of each person so they can be reliably and safely
represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and
consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We
call this Information for Good®.
A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five
continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic
opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for
hundreds of millions of people.
http://www.transunion.com/business
About CLX Health, LLCCLX Health is Joint
Venture between UST Global and SiriusIQ. UST Global is a
multinational provider of Digital technology and transformation, IT
services and solutions, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California,
United States. The company has offices in over 25 countries
including USA, India, Mexico, UK, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
Spain and Poland. SiriusIQ’s cloud healthcare platform has
developed interfaces to the top hospital and commercial
laboratories in the United States accounting for 90% of the lab
transactions by volume.
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