Proving that you are getting the COVID-19 vaccine could be as easy as pulling out your phone in the future.
This week, one company began providing a digital vaccine record to people who received the bullet in Los Angeles County.
Healthvana is partnering with the county to make sure people get both doses of the vaccine. The company is also in talks with other states to bring this technology in place.
“Right now, the status quo is that you get a piece of paper that says, ‘hey you got the Pfizer vaccine, come back in these few days,’ and we think it’s a complimentary feature. there’s something to go. on your phone in a way that you can capture, ”said Ramin Bastani, Head of Healthvana.
People need to opt in to receive vaccine information digitally. They then enter the name and date of birth into the Healthvana system to gain access. From there, they can remove their vaccination tablet on their phone or put it in an apple wallet.
“You can use it when you want to use it. As a patient or as a person, you may want to use it to show your school and airline if they want it or an employer, so it’s pretty much our overall goal here to make sure we get the information to the patient in a way that they can have at their fingertips, ”said Bastani.
The company says this is not a security passport as some people have been talking about. That’s because they don’t know yet who is going to accept this digital record from your phone.
But they tell us that everyone from event planning companies to airlines and universities have contacted them about using the technology.
Healthvana says they have experience of keeping private health information secure from its years in delivering HIV test results to patients. It stores data on the servers that are HIPAA compliant at Amazon Web Service.