Tech for the Post-Covid Era
As millions of vaccines are being distributed around the world, people are looking to different apps and tech solutions to navigate a new reality.
After a year of madness, loss, confusion, and hope, we are at the precipice of a great crossroads. How do we go back to “normal”? Is there even “normal” anymore? Well, some companies and organizations are helping us see more clearly how we get back to something we can recognize. Here are a few solutions being rolled out to see us back to glory.
Excelsior
Recently, New York state released an app that allows users to digitize proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test result. As businesses and venues start to increase capacity, the Excelsior app is expected to streamline entry in a safe and secure way. Users simply input their name, zip code, and DOB, and the app retrieves a QR pass if your information is in the statewide database. Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, MSG, and Barclays Center all accept the app as proof of vaccination or negative test, so all patrons would need to do upon entry is pull up their QR code to be scanned and admitted.
The Excelsior app seems like a nice option over carrying paper CDC cards or printed test results.
Safe Workplace Suite — ServiceNow
The whole world seems to have Zoom fatigue at this point, so getting back to the workplace at least part-time is something ServiceNow wants to achieve with Safe Workplace Suite.
The platform is designed to help companies and organizations reopen safely using a dashboard approach. This lets you track safety data in order to manage a safe return to in-person business. Contact tracing, distancing floor plans, and vaccination status are just a few of the useful tools and features of ServiceNow’s suite.
Safe Workplace can be an integral part of the movement forward past the pandemic.
ServiceNow Safe Workplace Suite
What’s Next?
These solutions are only an iota of what’s to come as the world faces a new reality, but a good launching point. Navigating the road ahead will take innovation and a willingness by people to adapt, and these apps can help guide us. Here’s to hoping we see some more collaboration moving forward.
