Posts with keyword: healthcare

5 entries

Building an SSI Ecosystem: Health Passes and the Design of an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

Mon Jun 28 11:17:00 2021

Ever since the Covid pandemic started in 2020, various groups have seen verifiable credentials as a means for providing a secure, privacy-respecting system for health and travel data sharing. This post explores the ecosystem of ecosystems that is emerging as hundreds of organizations around the world rise to the challenge of implementing a globally interoperable system that also respects individual choice and privacy.
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Building an SSI Ecosystem: Digital Staff Passports at the NHS

Tue May 11 10:55:00 2021

How does a functioning credential ecosystem get started? This post goes deep on Manny Nijjar’s work to create a program for using digital staff passports in the sprawling UK NHS bureaucracy.
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Credentials and Covid-19 Recovery

Wed Mar 25 12:35:00 2020

Sovrin credentials can give assurances of safety during the present Covid-19 crisis and help jump start economies when it's over.
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No on Universal Patient ID

Wed Jun 26 13:55:00 2019

Just as we're finally at a point where online identity system can solve the health care records problem without using a universal identifier, the US is poised to explore one. Let's not. Instead let's use identity systems that protect privacy.
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Sovrin Use Cases: Healthcare

Mon Nov 14 09:09:00 2016

Sovrin can improve healthcare and make it less costly by providing an identity system that combines a secure means of exchanging verifiable claims and patient consent that is a structural component of the system.
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