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Currently, over 50 organizations are using Health Pass.
The Health Pass, along with TCP’s CommonHealth and CommonPass apps, will help to reduce public health risk and ensure individuals are able to control their own health data in a safe and secure way, Walmart said.
These platforms will allow users to safely return to travel, work, school, sports events, entertainment, and other venues while also protecting their health data privacy.
“Our goal is to give customers vaccinated at Walmart free and secure digital access to their vaccine record and enable them to share that information with third parties seeking to confirm their vaccination status,” John Furner, CEO and president of Walmart US, said in the announcement.
“We are proud to be the first retailer to strategically partner with both The Commons Project Foundation and CLEAR, and we look forward to working with them to empower people with digital access to their vaccination records so they can use them whenever and however they choose,” Furner continued.
First, patients will create a free digital account at Walmart and Sam’s Club to gain access to their prescription history and other health care information from Walmart.
If the individual chooses to do so, they can download the CLEAR, CommonHealth, or CommonPass apps, create an account, and join for free. Patients can then sign into Walmart or Sam’s Club and share their vaccination history with the verification app.
Then, individuals will authenticate their vaccine status with their account credentials.
To enable this technology, Walmart and Sam’s Club have created systems that will allow vaccine status to be stored within the company’s proprietary apps. This effort furthers Walmart’s initiative to provide accessible healthcare through trained professionals in over 5,400 pharmacies.
“We applaud Walmart’s strong commitment to empowering customers with access to their health information using open standards,” said Paul Meyer, CEO of The Commons Project Foundation.
“Not only can this help facilitate the safer return to normal life during COVID, empowering people with their health data can help improve the quality of the health services they receive in the future,” Meyer continued.
At the beginning of January, Los Angeles County partnered with health startup, Healthvana, to roll out a new digital record offering that allows residence to store cords in their COVID-19 vaccination app in Apple Wallet or on a Google Platform.
The digital record storage will help to verify that individuals have been vaccinated and store this information in a safe place so that individuals can prove to organizations that they have been properly vaccinated.
Through the digital record offering, public health officials will provide patients ownership of their records, including a paper card tracking which vaccine they received and when.
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