“ It is an individual empowerment of your own health data. “The idea of being able to have trustworthy copies of your own health records is not a red or blue state issue,” echoes Anderson. And to have it in a form that I can present it conveniently for the kinds of things I want to do.” And that is, I own a right to have my own data. “There's always a question about who owns the data and the rights to access that data,” Leavitt said at a recent global forum on SMART Health Cards. Bush administration, the issue boils down to individual rights. For former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, a Republican who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the George W. Utah was one of the first red states to get on the SMART Health Card train. “This is essentially a Covid card that people get at their convenience because it’s their record.” “This isn’t a passport,” South Carolina’s director of immunizations told Politico. But big red South Carolina expects to roll out a portal for SMART Health Cards by the end of March, reports Politico. Most right-leaning states offering SMART Health Cards do it quietly, without any fanfare. Minnesota has chosen Docket, another third-party option. At least seven others - including Arizona, Mississippi and West Virginia - have turned to a third-party, MyIRMobile, to issue SMART Health Cards. More than a dozen states have launched their own SMART Health Card-based portals. The second argument for adopting a digital vaccine verification system is the one swaying red-state governors: Having digital access to personal health records empowers the individual. And in Africa, the SMART Health Card has rolled out in Kenya and Rwanda, just the first of 32 African countries in the “Smart Africa” alliance to adopt a digital-first approach to healthcare records. To wit: Every Canadian province has now adopted SMART Health Card verification, as has Aruba, the Cayman Islands, Singapore and Japan. “And at an international level, we are continuing to see intense interest in a coordinated international approach,” says Anderson. “Absolutely, it has become the standard across the U.S. “The SMART Health Card is such an important development and the Vaccine Credential Initiative has been phenomenal in getting this out there,” says Warren, noting that while Bindle recognizes several interoperable standards, the SMART Health Card has emerged as the most important. At the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for example, there's a Bindle lane that offers fastpass-like efficiency in scanning QR codes from a number of vaccine verification platforms used around the world. “We believe it gives people peace of mind when the folks around them are less likely to be contagious,” says Gus Warren, CEO of Bindle, a health verification app that allows venues to verify the vaccination status of patrons.īindle’s growing list of clients spans more than 30 states, from blue strongholds like California and New York to red leaners like Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri and Georgia. Many indoor cultural attractions and performance venues in the U.S. First, it’s a huge plus for travel in the U.S. For individuals, the benefits of having access to personal digital vaccine record is three-fold.
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