Hopefully this, along with other initiatives (e.g. https://www.fastcompany.com/90594097/how-to-prove-you-have-received-covid-19-vaccinaton) will adopt these emerging standards…
https://smarthealth.cards/
https://healthwallet.cards/#healthwalletissuevc-operation
Why stop with COVID-19? This could be a generic health card for all immunizations.
There are a few competing/supporting/overlapping efforts - https://thecommonsproject.org/commonpass
EU project
Estonia https://vm.ee/en/digital-health-and-innovation-cooperation-world-health-organization-who-smart-vaccination
Absolutely, Anthony Benson
Aligning to elements of the patient profile would be pretty efficient too.
AK, How does this link with Common Pass and IATA initiatives? Jim Brown
WHO SVC will set the basic requirements that implementers will need to follow. Common Pass is essentially replaced by the WHO work, while we expect IATA digital wallet will be made a conforming implementation
Very interesting paper. One thing that’s certain is when international travel resumes, the additional requirements of carriers and border management will make it more burdensome for everyone involved - particularly when coupled with the post 9/11 security landscape.
Great to see the following…
• HL7 FHIR R4 has been decided upon as the health data standard for expressing the SVC core data set
• The HL7 FHIR International Patient Summary (IPS) Implementation Guide (IG) has been chosen as the “reference” data model for the SVC IG, with profiling as necessary to support the cardinality and coding decisions related to the SVC core data set
Not so pleasing that ’ The normative base code system for the SVC is ICD-11’. However, it looks as if SNOMED CT concepts can be used as well. I’ve finally tracked down the ICD-11 Extension Codes for the COVID-19 Vaccines, but has anyone actually implemented ICD-11 yet?
Peter Jordan you’ll see it’s a parking lot question as to how a FHIR composition resource gets through the eye of a needle and into a QR code without blowing its space budget
A few Kiwis are involved with this WHO project to develop a common set of specifications for a digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate that provides (1) proof of vaccination at the border/door and (2) continuity of health care: https://www.who.int/groups/smart-vaccination-certificate-working-group
As one of the participants, I attended working group calls last week to begin defining use cases and a minimum data set.
WHO smart vaccination certificate project
Author: Alastair Kenworthy
Post type: announcement
WHO is developing guidelines and infrastructure for paper/digital COVID proof of vaccination certificates. Nothing published yet but plenty of useful commentary, including this from Gartner https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3995810/digital-covid-19-vaccine-certificates-the-road-to-a-new-
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https://www.yammer.com/healthinformationstandards/messages/1091456466903040
WHO Smart Vaccination Certificate Release Candidate 1 is available
Author: Alastair Kenworthy
Post type: announcement
Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Smart Vaccination Certificate (SVC) specification is live on the public WHO web site. Documents and feedback forms are here: https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/call-for-public-comments-interim-guidance-for-developing-a-smart-vaccination-certificate-release-candidate-1
This specification is intended to shape all national implementations of a vaccination certificate or passport, and is the work of an expert group over the past three months
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https://www.yammer.com/healthinformationstandards/messages/1130618064470016
The FHIR Community already has solutions for this, e.g.
https://smarthealth.cards/#health-cards-are-small
and…
An interesting, but not altogether surprising, change of tack from the WHO…