Vaccination Credential Initiative

Full Title or Meme

VCI is a consortium of healthcare enterprises lead by MITRE and supported by Microsoft to enable Verifiable Credentials in Healthcare.

Context

• Vaccination Credential Initiative has hitched up to the COVID19 bandwagon to show a real life use case in Healthcare.
• The goal is to demonstrate one's health status to safely return to travel, work, school and life while protecting their data privacy.

SMART Health Cards

A provided by participating testing labs that can be used in:

• Digital wallet apps that adhere to the SMART Health Cards Framework.
• PDF or paper printed with QR code referring to the SMART Health Cards
• Issuer (e.g., a lab) generates verifiable credentials
• Holder stores credentials and presents them at will
• Verifier receives credentials from holder and ensures they are properly signed (not clear if this is the credential or a Presentation Exchange).

User Experience

• Install a "Health Wallet" app
• Connect the Health Wallet to a lab account
• Save a COVID-19 results card from the lab to the Health Wallet
• When a user wants to share COVID-19 results with a verifier: a) Open Health Wallet b) Scan a QR code displayed by verifier c) Agree when prompted with "Share COVID-19 results with {Verifier Name}?"

Using the Demo

• The Demo is on GitHub
• runs on node.js - version 15 is LTS on 2021-01-15
  • First Install nvm = node version manager