What if it is not banking, as I’d always assumed, but COVID that drives digital identity into the mass market?
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The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) is a coalition of public and private partners committed to empowering individuals with digital access to their vaccination records
From VCI:
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The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) is working to enable individuals vaccinated for COVID-19 to access their vaccination records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way.
Coalition partners include CARIN Alliance, Cerner, Change Healthcare, The Commons Project Foundation, Epic, Evernorth, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, MITRE, Oracle, Safe Health, and Salesforce.
VCI coalition members are working to enable digital access to vaccination records using the open, interoperable SMART Health Cards specification, based on W3C Verifiable Credential and HL7 FHIR standards.
From Broad Coalition of Health and Technology Industry Leaders Announce Vaccination Credential Initiative to Accelerate Digital Access to COVID-19 Vaccination Records | Business Wire:
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If the Health Wallet wants to fine-tune identity claims in the generated credentials, it can provide an explicit list of one or more includeIdentityClaims, which will limit the claims included in the VC. For example, to request that only name be included:
{
“resourceType”: “Parameters”,
“parameter”: [{
“name”: “credentialType”,
“valueUri”: “https://healthwallet.cards#covid19”
}, {
“name”: “includeIdentityClaim”,
“valueString”: “Patient.name”
}, {
“name”: “encryptForKeyId”,
“valueString”: “#encryption-key-1”
}]
}
If no encryptForKeyId parameter is supplied, then the signed VC is returned unencrypted. To request encryption, the client includes an encryptForKeyId parameter with a valueString, indicating the requested encryption key ID, starting with #. This ensures that even if the client’s DID document includes more than one encryption key, the server will know which one to use for encrypting this payload.
From SMART Health Cards Framework:
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Any time we want to present healthcare data in the form of a VC, we must first make some use-case-specific decisions:
Define a set of required and optional FHIR content resources (e.g., Immunization or Observation) that must be packaged and presented together
Decide how to bind these FHIR content resources to a person’s external identity, via FHIR identity resources (e.g., Patient)
From Credentials – SMART Health Cards Framework:
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FHIR® – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (hl7.org/fhir) – is a next generation standards framework created by HL7. FHIR combines the best features of HL7’s v2 , HL7 v3 and CDA product lines while leveraging the latest web standards and applying a tight focus on implementability.
From Summary – FHIR v4.0.1:
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Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services.
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A mock-up from the Commons Project of what a digital vaccine credential might look like.
From Covid Vaccine Digital Credentials See Interest From Microsoft, Salesforce – The New York Times:
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IATA Travel Pass
A global and standardized solution to validate and authenticate all country regulations regarding COVID-19 passenger travel requirements. IATA Travel Pass will incorporate four open sourced and interoperable modules which can be combined for an end-to-end solution:
REGISTRY OF HEALTH REQUIREMENTS REGISTRY OF TESTING / VACCINATION CENTERS LAB APP CONTACTLESS TRAVEL APP
Enables passengers to find accurate information on travel, testing and vaccine requirements for their journey
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Enables passengers to find testing centres and labs at their departure location which meet the standards for testing/vaccination requirements of their destination
Enables authorized labs and test centers to securely send test results or vaccination certificates to passengers
Enables passengers to (1) create a ‘digital passport’, (2) verify their test/vaccination meets the regulations & (3) shares test or vaccination certificates with authorities to facilitate travel.
Can be used by travelers to manage travel documentation digitally and seamlessly throughout the travel experience.
From IATA – Travel Pass Initiative:
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