Longer term lessons from Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates - Natschja (Nat) Ratanaprayul

PowerPoint Presentation Longer term lessons from Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates Natschja (Nat) Ratanaprayul Department of Digital Health and Innovations Public Digital Health Technologies Unit Before COVID-19, individual immunization records have been implemented in a variety of ways in every country • The international certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis for international tr. [...] Reissuance model • Many existing digital standards that don’t interoperate • Establishing a new standard or central solution would not be viable at this point in the pandemic • Investment in digital technologies is expensive – will need to architect for use cases beyond COVID-19 • Updating the IHR and digitizing the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (“yellow card”) will take. [...] 10 Future directions of the DDCC - federated model of Interoperable Digital Health Trust Networks WHO is coordinating and consulting with member states, G20, OECD, GDHP to discuss a federated model of Interoperable Digital Health Trust Networks consisting of: 1. [...] 11 Paths forward for international travel-related health measures Regular systematic reviews of evidence on both effectiveness and impact of PHSMs should continue to be conducted and used to inform future health emergency responses While technical guidance must be risk-based and context-specifi. [...] Consider the use of trust networks beyond COVID-19 PHSM = Public health and social measures 12 Trust networks beyond COVID-19 It is fundamentally about the right for an individual patient to have access and control over their own health information in the form of a personal health record, which can then be used for a variety of use cases where credentials are needed such as: • The yellow card (I.