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Health & tech giants creating vaccination passports
January 15, 2021
Major organizations, health associations, and charities declared on Thursday morning that they were cooperating to create digital vaccination passports so that individuals could demonstrate their COVID-19 vaccination status.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative – an alliance including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, and the Mayo Clinic said it was creating tech norms to allow individuals to get to their vaccination records and confirm whether they’ve had their vaccine.
The VCI said individuals without cell phones could get printed QR codes with the data.
Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Lufthansa, and JetBlue said in December that they would begin tolerating a digital health pass called CommonPass as confirmation of a negative COVID-19 test.
That pass was made by one of the individuals from the VCI, the Commons Project Foundation, and is intended to be a worldwide norm. The activity reported Thursday is discrete and more driven.
“The objective of the Vaccination Credential Initiative is to enable people with computerized access to their vaccination records so they can use apparatuses like CommonPass to securely re-visitation of movement, work, school, and life, while ensuring their information protection,” Paul Meyer, the CEO of the Commons Project Foundation, a charitable in Geneva, said in an official statement.