Welcome to our dystopian hellscape, where you’ll soon have to flick your Apple Wallet to enter an airport to prove you’re the one covid-19 vaccine.
According to a recent Bloomberg report, this is the reality faced by Los Angeles residents, where a recent partnership between appeal and wellness app Healthvana could soon mean that vaccination records will be offered digitally in an effort to encourage people (hopefully) to vaccinate themselves. Because the virus that causes covid-19 requires a dose of two shots, the logic is that the registration of the first shot can be stored digitally to ensure that individuals are removed quickly for their second shot – and may eventually serve as proof that an individual trying to gain access to a grocery store or concert venue has been vaccinated.
Los Angeles recently broke its own record for both deaths and hospitalizations in 19, and health officials put in place a plan for the payment of vaccines as quickly as possible. of public health.
While the vaccines will be formally detected in registries and patients who receive paper detection cards, Jarashow said health officials also see an advantage in giving patients access to their digital records, which will have the additional advantage associated with placing more difficult.
“We are really worried. We really want people to come back for the second dose, ”Jarashow told Bloomberg. “We just do not have the ability to submit hundreds of medical record requests to find people’s first doses and when to get their second.”
G / O Media can get a commission
Although some patients are likely to be wary of handing over their protected medicines data to some app, Healthvana CEO Ramin Bastani claims that the company stores its data on Amazon web services’ HIPAA servers, which “makes the app” as secure as we can make it “, according to Jarashow.
“Personally, I feel comfortable using it, so I hope it’s reassuring,” she added..
According to Bloomberg, Healthvana is also in talks with concert venues, employers and schools in Los Angeles County about the application of this technology –“Anyone who has a large number of people with them,” says Bastani, although he adds he is skeptical that the app will become the de facto mode to identify your vaccination status.
“It’s not going to be like one credit card you can use in the US,” Bastani said say. “Sometimes you can pay cash, sometimes you have Apple Wallet.”