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.
• No sooner than the announcement of this effort the Good Health Pass was announced, which is vaccinations plus testing and other documents tat can't restore global travel.

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.
• A presentation on Smart Health Cards.
• 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 with a fork here.
• runs on node.js - version 15 is LTS (Long Term Support) on 2021-01-15
  • First Install nvm = node version manager
    • Open the windows-nvm repository in your internet browser and select the Download Now link.
    • Download the nvm-setup.zip file for the most recent release (or most recent LTS if that is important).
    • Once downloaded, open the zip file, then open the nvm-setup.exe file.
    • The Setup-NVM-for-Windows installation wizard will walk you through the setup steps, including choosing the directory where both nvm-windows and Node.js will be installed.
    • when running nvm install or nvm use, you must have Windows administrative rights (to create symlinks) and you probably want to key: nvm use 15.0.0
• running the following scripts requires a unix shell.

git clone https://github.com/microsoft-healthcare-madison/health-wallet-demo
cd health-wallet-demo

• running in docker does not

docker build -t health-wallet-demo .

References

Other Material

• Smart Health IT SMART Health IT was launched with a New England Journal of Medicine article proposing a universal API (application programming interface) to transform EHRs into platforms for substitutable iPhone-like apps.