Los Angeles County residents who receive a COVID-19 vaccination can add a digital record of their vaccination to the Apple Wallet app, reports Bloomberg.
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The county has partnered with Healthvana to add proof of vaccination to the Wallet app on the iPhone. Healthvana is a patient platform that healthcare providers can use to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients.
The vaccination record helps to ensure that those who have been vaccinated receive their second injection in the two-dose procedure and, in the future, Bloomberg speculates that it could be used as proof of vaccination for access flights, shows and more.
For now, the Portfolio’s vaccination record will alert people who got the first vaccine about the second visit to ensure that each person is fully vaccinated.
“We are really concerned. We really want people to go back to their second dose,” said Claire Jarashow, director of vaccine-preventable disease control in LA Bloomberg. “We just don’t have the capacity to handle hundreds of requests for medical records to find people’s first doses and when they need to get the second.”
Immunizations are also being tracked at notaries and vaccinees are given a paper card, but that card is easily lost, so the Wallet app serves as more permanent evidence.
The county is planning to send data to Healthvana every night, with information stored on Amazon Web Services’ HIPAA-compliant servers. Jarashow said Bloomberg which is “the safest we can do” and that she “would feel comfortable using”.
On December 22, Los Angeles administered at least 38,850 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare professionals, residents of long-term care facilities and paramedics.
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