Johns Hopkins School of Public Health professor Dr. Marty Makary provides insight into the challenges of the coronavirus vaccine delivery process and its outlook for the pandemic.
Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce have joined a broad coalition of technology and healthcare companies to create the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), which aims to accelerate access to COVID-19 vaccination records by creating a digital passport.
The technology would allow individuals to obtain a copy of their immunization records through a digital wallet of their choice, such as Apple Wallet or Google Pay, while those without smartphones would receive paper printed with QR codes containing verifiable credentials. In addition, VCI said it will also try to develop new standards to help determine whether or not a person has been inoculated against the virus.
Other health and technology leaders involved in the initiative include the Commons Project Foundation, the CARIN Alliance, Cerner, Change Healthcare, Epic, Evernorth, the Mayo Clinic, MITER and Safe Health.
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Salesforce Executive Vice President and General Manager Bill Patterson said in a statement that the cloud-based software company hopes to help organizations “easily and securely customize all aspects of the vaccination management lifecycle and whether integrate closely with the offerings of other coalition members, which will help all of us get back into public life. “
“With a single platform to help deliver safe and continuous operations and deepen customer and employee confidence, this coalition will be crucial to supporting public health and well-being,” added Patterson.
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Mike Sicilia, executive vice president of Oracle’s global business units, added that electronic access to vaccinations, tests and other medical records will be “vital for resuming travel and more” and that the process “needs to be as easy as a bank. online “.
“We are committed to working collectively with the technology and medical communities, as well as with global governments, to ensure that people have secure access to this information wherever and whenever they need it,” said Sicilia.
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A Microsoft spokesman told FOX Business that the technology giant has already developed an implementation guide detailing “the use of open, interoperable and privacy protection standards through the SMART Health Cards framework” as part of the VCI.
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The boost came after the Commons Project Foundation developed its own digital health app last year, known as CommonPass, which has already been tested with United Airlines for flights between the United States and the United Kingdom
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 30 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine created by Pfizer and BionTech and Moderna were distributed in the United States on Thursday, with more than 11 million Americans already receiving their first dose.
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According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has surpassed 23.2 million cases of coronavirus, with more than 387,000 Americans who died of the disease.
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