Las diferentes propuestas de Pasaportes Digitales y aplicaciones de verificación de vacunación

The different proposals for Digital Passports and vaccination verification applications

Existen gran variedad de alternativas para asegurar entornos seguros y libres de COVID-19 en la nueva normalidad. Tras la llegada y la aplicación de las primeras vacunas en el mundo, aerolíneas, centros de trabajo, gobiernos y organismos internacionales como la Organización Mundial de la Salud, han acudido a herramientas de Digital Health para la creación de certificados médicos que incluyan información sobre síntomas, aplicación de la vacuna o prueba de diagnóstico negativo de COVID-19.

Digital passport initiatives for travel have been presented in recent months, CommonPass is one of these proposals to seek safe international travel free of potential infection through the development of an application that verifies that the traveler has no symptoms, and has given a negative result in COVID test. This proposal is being developed by The Commons Project Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit organization. This organization has had contact with representatives of the World Economic Forum and recently joined their projects with the Airport Council International, which represents about 2,000 airports worldwide. In addition, five airlines will be involved in the project to ensure safety in international travel.

The WHO has also made a proposal for a digital and updated version of the Carte Jaune , for which they have assembled a group of experts who will develop the project. Smart Vaccination Certificate is the name of this project that seeks to ensure a reliable and secure electronic registry of people who have had access to the COVID-19 vaccine: “A multi-sectoral consortium focused on supporting a governance model, joint learning, and key standards for a digital smart yellow card and trusted architecture to support roll out of the anticipated COVAX, and application to other routine immunisation systems”, the WHO stated in their announcement on the initiative.

Por otra parte, lejos de los viajes y los aeropuertos Well.Me iniciativa en el Reino Unido lanzará un sistema de seguimiento y localización en sus pases de Digital Health contra COVID-19. El cual está especializado para que empleadores aseguren entornos laborales seguros para sus empleados. “Para que Gran Bretaña vuelva a trabajar es vital que brindemos a los principales empleadores, incluido nuestro servicio de salud, los medios para combatir los brotes de COVID-19 en el lugar de trabajo”, explicó Keith Lewis, director ejecutivo de dicha compañía.

COVIPASS, a medical certificate generated through a QR code. This initiative has been developed by Tento Health, a company specialized in the creation and application of Digital Health tools and technologies. This application is also aimed at employees and customers, through the app they can confirm their health status and is also able to add the result of COVID tests. This is also useful for local and international air travel.

Diferentes propuestas han sido desarrolladas, algunas de mayor complejidad que otras, y por supuesto con diferentes funciones, sin embargo, de igual forma útiles para la verificación de la información médica, especialmente relacionada COVID-19.