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nationwide digital testing

Austria’s mass COVID testing shifted from paper queues to an end-to-end digital flow—QR check-in, on-site validation, automated results, and tamper-proof certificates via SMS/WhatsApp. Integrated with existing systems and auto-reporting to authorities, it scaled to 500,000+ tests/day and cut per-test time from ~15 minutes to ≈1 minute, reducing touchpoints from 3–5 to one.

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vienna

industry

healthcare

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nationwide digital testing

summary

Austria’s mass COVID testing shifted from paper queues to an end-to-end digital flow—QR check-in, on-site validation, automated results, and tamper-proof certificates via SMS/WhatsApp. Integrated with existing systems and auto-reporting to authorities, it scaled to 500,000+ tests/day and cut per-test time from ~15 minutes to ≈1 minute, reducing touchpoints from 3–5 to one.

challenge

During the pandemic, very large numbers of people had to be tested every day. Paper forms, queues, and duplicate data entry caused delays, errors, and a logistics burden that became hard to manage. In Austria, at the peak, well over 500,000 tests per day were processed—the systems reached their limits.

solution

We replaced the paper process with an end-to-end digital flow: check-in via QR code with on-site validation, automated result processing, and tamper-proof certificates as PDFs sent via SMS/WhatsApp. The solution integrated with existing systems and automatically reported results to health and government databases.

impact

Throughput per test: from ~15 min to ≈ 1 min
Touchpoints: reduce from 3–5 to 1 only
Authority reporting: automated, faster, and less error-prone
Time per 1,000,000 tests
Time used for testing and processing before: ~15 min/test
Time used for testing and processing after: ~1 min/test
Saved time per 1 Mio tests: ≈ 26.6 years

Tags: government / healthcare / medical / pharma

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