VCI Launches SMART Health Card to US Residents

A private-public partnership of technology and healthcare companies called the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), which includes Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle and the Mayo Clinic, has created a verifiable digital proof of vaccination called the SMART Health Card.

The Biden administration has resisted getting behind a national digital vaccination certification system in the US, leaving Americans relying on paper vaccination records from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention – a paper based solution that can be lost or easily faked, and which requires human investigation to confirm authenticity.

As Americans encounter an increasing number of places, domestically and internationally, asking them to show proof of their vaccination status, it’s becoming increasingly clear that a paper solution is not going to be sufficiently secure or efficient.