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VAXTRAC MEETS NEW EU & WHO STANDARDS FOR Health Certificates
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Beverly Hills, California USA, Allied Identity, a founding member of the Vaxtrac Coalition, today announced that its platform is now in conformance with the EU-European Council’s
regulation on a Digital Green Health Certificate and the World Health Organization’s data elements standards. These standards, developed by the European Union and the World Health Organization govern the adoption of a common set of information that can be presented to show proof of immunity, a vaccination, or a test. Just as the paper-based International Certificate of Vaccination and Prophylaxis (Yellow Card) provided for proof of yellow fever and other vaccinations, this newer information set is designed to be fraud-proof and digital in its core format.
There are many “health passport” solutions that have been proposed and piloted in the market. None of these conform with these new standards and the data models are often ill-defined.
All immunization systems and accompanying credentials need to support strong binding to a trusted identity, authentication without dependence on or connectivity to the internet, and privacy-protected data that is in the control of the end-user. The Vaxtrac platform is available today and is built on these principles.
The Vaxtrac platform also supports inclusivity by providing credentials that work across all domains and in developing nations. The credentials can be deployed in three formats: paper, mobile health wallets (phone apps), and as a travel card that meets the ICAO 9303 standards and requires no hardware changes to immigration systems currently in place globally. Additionally, the Vaxtrac platform provides governments with strong anonymous information for public health policy.
Vaxtrac is a set of modular solutions from best-of-breed experienced suppliers that provide a complete end-to-end solution or individual modules to supplement a government’s existing infrastructure. It is built by design for interoperability using the CDC 4.0 core data elements, HL7 and ICD data descriptors and standards from ICAO 9303, and many ISO standards around authentication, encryption, and data integrity. The platform is also HIPAA, SOC-2, and GDPR compliant.
Protected by SICPA CERTUS with a KSI blockchain trust anchor, the Vaxtrac certificates can be easily verified anywhere, on or offline. This trust anchor establishes the validity of the healthcare event and is based on the only EU-certified blockchain technology. The Vaxtrac/CERTUS trust anchor enables the data to be used with absolute confidence. The platform provides a complete vaccination chain of trust management, including real-time data regarding the supply chain and how many tests or vaccines have been used and administered.
About the Vaxtrac Coalition
The coalition was formed by three globally recognized market leaders with over 400 years of collective government service and credentialing experience. The purpose is to offer best-of-breed solutions around the holistic management of healthcare data from supply chain management to testing and vaccination events. The platform can be deployed as an end-to-end solution or in modules. It is designed to improve short- and long-term population health with simple overlays or changes to existing infrastructure and the implementation of secure fraud-proof health certificates in three formats. Vaxtrac is defended by 22 patents and the blended architecture of currently deployed healthcare identities and emergency management software plus a 21st-century identity management platform.
About Allied Identity
Allied Identity makes governments and organizations smarter by providing fundamental software components to ensure the absolute identity of people and assets. Allied Identity secures these identities for specific uses, ensuring the proper allocation of resources and enabling genuine transaction integrity across all domains. The Allied Identity Platform Suite provides strong certified credentials, eSignatures, and authentication mechanisms that work together to enable every process step in a strong Identity Ecosystem. These activities radically improve healthcare, emergency services, and benefit distributions.
www.alliedidentity.com
About SICPA
SICPA is a trusted global provider of authentication, traceability, and verification solutions, protecting the majority of the world's banknotes and identity credentials and billions of regulated products from counterfeiting and fraud. CERTUS®, SICPA's innovative document security solution digitally issues and secures credentials for universal verification and remote management. Founded in 1927, SICPA operates worldwide with its global headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and U.S. headquarters in Springfield, VA.
www.sicpa.com
About ABCorp
ABCorp’s history dates back to 1795, more than 225 years, starting as secure printers – designing and producing better, more counterfeit resistant currency for the First Bank of the United States. ABCorp’s products and services have changed, but security is of utmost importance in every product and service offered. ABCorp designs, manufactures, and personalizes contactless smart cards, prints highly detailed 3D prototypes and parts, and uses digital content to elevate the customer experience.
Vaxtrac Coalition Adds Industry Leaders
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vaxtrac Coalition founding members Allied Identity and SICPA announced additional members. The Coalition is working to strengthen the capacity of communities around the world to safely and securely respond to COVID-19 and future infectious disease outbreaks.
In 2020, the Coalition introduced Vaxtrac in response to the fraud with the vaccination 'Yellow Card' used for international travel. Vaxtrac addresses the unprecedented challenges created by COVID-19 and outdated vaccination management systems. Vaxtrac enables a real-time, holistic view of population health by providing strong data validation, giving individuals control of their own records, and removing fraud from the system. Individual credentials are protected by SICPA's proven CERTUS® myHealth Pass technology, which creates a blockchain-protected digital seal in a unique QR code that is easily verified, tamper-proof, and tied to a unique identity.
Unlike other solutions that rely on a centralized database, Vaxtrac provides a decentralized approach, similar to driver licenses, that works independently or extends current Immunization Information Systems run by state/territorial/provincial governments. It provides secure anonymous data for public policy that is not seen or handled by the large tech oligarchies and enables individuals to carry private credentials on a smartphone, on paper, or in a plastic card to share at their discretion.
The Vaxtrac Coalition is pleased to welcome the following new members who will strengthen the capacity of communities to respond to public health priorities:
- American Banknote Corporation (ABCorp), a US-based company supporting governments and world-class organizations globally with secure credentials and payments solutions for over two centuries;
- Africa'nity Group, a Senegalese-owned digital engineering solutions company with network and telecom technology focused on sectors including: education, energies, security and defense, health, civil engineering, agriculture, and hydraulics;
- AfriDOKTA, Africa's premier hybrid telemedicine/mHealth mobile platform;
- Corvus Biometrics, a Northern Virginia-based, veteran-owned, business focused on the delivery and administration of biometric and identity management security solutions on a global scale;
- eHealth Africa, a leading nonprofit working throughout Africa to build stronger health systems through the delivery of test and vaccinations combined with world-class bespoke in-country laboratories and the implementation of data-driven solutions;
- Equity Health Services, a Canadian provider of strategic and operational healthcare solutions including diagnostic and mobile health services for governments, Indigenous communities, and a range of private sector industries;
- eTranzact, the leading payment processing platform in Nigeria;
- FaceDrive, an advanced contact tracing platform with AI capabilities that allows users to identify exposed individuals and predict spread patterns for all strains of COVID-19, providing the tools to mitigate the risk of shutdown;
- MedRespond, the leading online healthcare communications company that combines artificial intelligence, search, and streaming media to educate and inform patients and healthcare teams;
- PASP, offers one of the most secure ID card platforms in the world, protecting identity through secure physical credentialing, and data services for governments around the world;
- Twin Technology, a UK/African-based company that brings global innovation and emerging technologies to markets and is dedicated to simplifying IT complexity and providing services with an emphasis on business continuity, enabling competitive advantage whilst mitigating risk and protecting business value with market-leading IT support and solutions.
"Vaxtrac is a critical tool in the complex effort to securely and reliably record individual vaccination status and offer useful data to improve population health. It is especially vital as government, business, and public health officials globally look for ways to safely manage international travel and business operations that are still at risk," said Jeff Hattara Coalition founder and CEO of Allied Identity "Together, Vaxtrac Coalition members leverage their unique expertise and solutions to ensure that strong, secure vaccination management and credentialing solutions reach the markets who need them to help recover from COVID-19 and respond to future infectious disease outbreaks."
About Allied Identity
Allied Identity makes governments and organizations smarter by providing fundamental software components to ensure the absolute identity of people and assets. Allied Identity secures these identities for specific uses, ensuring the proper allocation of resources and enabling genuine transaction integrity across all domains. The Allied Identity Platform Suite provides strong certified credentials, eSignatures, and authentication mechanisms that work together to enable every process step in a strong Identity Ecosystem. These activities radically improve healthcare, emergency services, and benefit distributions.
www.alliedidentity.com
www.vaxnverify.com
About SICPA
SICPA is a trusted global provider of authentication, traceability, and verification solutions, protecting the majority of the world's banknotes and identity credentials and billions of regulated products from counterfeiting and fraud. CERTUS®, SICPA's innovative document security solution digitally issues and secures credentials for universal verification and remote management. Founded in 1927, SICPA operates worldwide with its global headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and U.S. headquarters in Springfield, VA.
www.sicpa.com
www.certusdoc.com
www.vaxnverify.com
ELCA and SICPA SECURE Covid-19 CERTIFICATES
April 22, 2021, Prilly, Switzerland
In its communiqué on 22 April 2021, the Federal Office for Public Health (OFSP) proposes two approaches which are aimed at producing a Swiss solution that will be operational at end-May. On the one hand, a solution put forward by OFIT (the Federal Office for Telecommunications and Informatics), and on the other, a solution jointly proposed by ELCA and SICPA. ELCA and SICPA are proud to take up this challenge in close partnership with the OFSP and the OFIT in order to allow citizens a safe return to normal life.
The ELCA and SICPA solution is based on the expertise of these two companies, whose technologies are already deployed to secure numerous aspects of citizens' daily lives, in Switzerland and throughout the world.
This 100% Swiss solution (which is fully interoperable with solutions to be deployed by other countries) will enable the competent authorities to generate a forgery-proof QR code. This is a unique technology developed by SICPA. The QR code can be stored on a smartphone or in a printed version – both with an equally high level of security - which can then be verified using a simple smartphone. This will greatly facilitate its adoption by everyone in Switzerland and its recognition at border crossings. ELCA’s solutions, in particular HealthnGo, allow this QR code to be used by numerous stakeholders, notably the issuers of health certificates, the entities charged with verification, and of course Swiss citizens themselves.
The solution is easy to use and fully respects all the criteria required by the authorities to protect citizens' private data. It complies with Article 6a of the COVID Law, protects data and sharing only that which is essential to verification. It does not require access to any centralized database. This avoids any unauthorized access or manipulation. This unprecedented level of security, integrity, confidentiality, and traceability has already resulted in the adoption by key players in the Swiss health sector and will enable it to be deployed rapidly. The solution also assures rigorous identification of the health service providers who are charged with certifying a health event such as vaccination or proof of a test result, using ELCA’s trustID. This is a solution certified by the Confederation in the framework of Electronic Patient Records.
Mr. Philippe Amon, Chairman, and CEO of SICPA said: “Supporting Switzerland and her citizens in the current health crisis is a top priority. The cutting-edge solution we are proposing to the Swiss authorities with our partner ELCA is something that we can all be proud of.”
Mr. Cedric Moret, Board member and CEO of ELCA said “Bringing together the ELCA and SICPA solutions allows us to rapidly put in place a safe and effective solution for all Swiss citizens. We are honored to be able to help Switzerland to find a swift exit from the crisis.”
The reliability and flexibility of the ELCA and SICPA solution, together with the competencies of the OFIT will allow citizens to travel once again, to visit their families and friends, to pursue leisure activities. In short, it will allow them to return to normal life while maintaining trust, a core value for both SICPA and ELCA.
ELCA is one of the biggest independent Swiss full-service providers for business and technology solutions, and a leader in the fields of IT business consulting, software development and maintenance, and IT systems integration. ELCA solutions reduce complexity and increase innovation cycles, improve business outcomes and customer satisfaction. The privately-owned company, with more than 1400 experts, has branches in Lausanne, Zurich, Geneva, Berne, Paris, Madrid, Basel, Granada, Mauritius, and Ho Chi Minh City (offshore development), all operating according to a common process framework.
www.elca.ch
SICPA is a leading global provider of secured authentication, identification, and traceability solutions and services and a long-trusted advisor to governments, central banks, high-security printers, and industry. Founded in 1927, headquartered in Switzerland, and operating on five continents, SICPA’s mission is to Enable Trust through constant innovation. Based on core expertise in high-security inks, the company protects the majority of the world’s banknotes, security, and value documents from the threats of counterfeiting and fraud. SICPA also integrates material covert features and cutting-edge digital technology to offer sophisticated traceability and supply chain protection solutions and services, enabling governments to optimize tax revenues and enforce regulations. SICPA also continues to innovate in the digital area, working with in-house R&D and external partners to provide solutions for e-government services.
www.sicpa.com
Allied Identity Launches Vaxtrac
A New Vaccination Management and Credentialing Platform
In the fight against COVID-19 and other communicable diseases, the Vaxtrac solution will help facilitate a safe return to normal by modernizing the record-keeping and credentials for vaccinations and testing.
December 18, 2020 – Today, Allied Identity announced the launch of Vaxtrac, a comprehensive vaccination management and credentialing platform designed to aid in the local, national and international response to COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. Vaxtrac uses SICPA’s proprietary CERTUS™ service in order to ensure the security of vaccination records and credentials.
Today, outdated vaccination management systems and non-secure credentials – like local Immunization Information Systems (IIS), the legacy paper-based “Yellow Card,” and new paper-based COVID cards – make it difficult for governments and public health officials to effectively use individual vaccination information to provide appropriate care and control the spread of infectious diseases, especially in an era of increased global mobility and rising population density. In the face of global pandemics like COVID-19, the lack of secure, reliable, connected data poses a direct risk to the health of individuals, communities, and entire countries.
Representing a groundbreaking effort to bring together proven technologies and approaches to addressing this urgent challenge, Vaxtrac enables a real-time, holistic view of population health by providing strong data validation, giving individuals control of their own records, and removing fraud from the system. Vaxtrac allows for secure, universal access to individual testing and vaccination credentials issued only by authorized healthcare providers; seamless independent verification; and real-time updates to relevant information.
SICPA’s CERTUS™ MyHealth Pass sits at the heart of Vaxtrac to generate a blockchain-protected digital seal that ensures credentials are tied to a unique identity, cannot be tampered with, and can be confidently verified by anyone ensuring greater transparency and preventing potentially dangerous efforts to mislead public health officials. Together Vaxtrac and CERTUS™ provide a scalable, easy to implement, privacy-preserving solution that can be used end-to-end or as individual modules to assist in the short- and long-term management of immunization control.
“Preparing for the public health response to COVID-19 has revealed critical gaps in current vaccination management infrastructure,” said Karen Gardner, Chief Marketing Officer, SICPA North America. “Vaxtrac and CERTUS™ help fill those gaps with modernized vaccination management and credentialing to immediately help public health officials manage successful COVID-19 testing and immunization programs, complete with secure, reliable credentials. This is critical in safely facilitating the return to ‘normal’ needed for economic recovery and continued global health and security.”
“Our team is proud to work with SICPA and other partners to bring this critical technology to market and help facilitate a safe return to normal. The Vaxtrac System is architected from the start to be secure, privacy-preserving, and to work across the many places a population might need a validated proof of testing or immunization,” said Jeffrey Hattara, CEO of Allied Identity. “Our low-cost model guarantees the sustainability of the infrastructure for the long term for all stakeholders.”
About Allied Identity
Allied Identity makes governments and organizations smarter by providing fundamental biometric and embedded software components to ensure the absolute identity of people and assets. Allied Identity tracks these identities in real-time, ensuring the proper allocation of resources and enabling genuine transaction integrity across all domains. The Allied Identity Platform Suite provides strong certified credentials, eSignatures, and authentication mechanisms that work together to enable every process step in a strong Identity Ecosystem. These activities radically improve Healthcare, Emergency Services, and Benefit Distributions. www.alliedidentity.com www.vaxnverify.com
About SICPA
SICPA is a trusted global provider of authentication, traceability, and verification solutions, protecting the majority of the world’s banknotes and identity credentials and billions of regulated products from counterfeiting and fraud. CERTUS™, SICPA’s innovative document security solution digitally issues and secures credentials for universal verification and remote management. Founded in 1927, SICPA operates worldwide with its global headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and U.S. headquarters in Springfield, VA. www.sicpa.com www.certusdoc.com
SICPA CERTUS™ REFERENCED BY THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
September 23, 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland
There has been a lot of hype around applications and technology to record, track and verify health status for the presence of COVID-19. SICPA's Certus™ solution is referenced by the WEF: a solution that not only provides a portable status record - like a health card - to record pandemic, health and vaccination status, but also takes into account confidentiality and respect for human rights.
About SICPA
SICPA is a leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, integrating material-based covert features and digital technologies. Founded in 1927, headquartered in Switzerland and operating globally, SICPA protects the majority of the world’s banknotes, security and value documents from the threats of counterfeiting and fraud.
SICPA is also Enabling Trust in the digital world with solutions meeting a diverse range of challenges – protecting land registries, electoral integrity, diplomas, the supply chain for precious metals and an international health passport relevant to managing COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
SICPA’s mission is to Enable Trust through constant innovation.
ALIANZA COVID-19 FIGHTING THE PANDEMIC
September 30, 2020 - Madrid, Spain
Alianza-COVID19 and SICPA signed an agreement on 21 September to join forces in the fight to control the coronavirus pandemic in Spain. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Alianza-COVID19 has brought together biotech companies and laboratories with experience in genetic and clinical diagnosis, along with more than 100 professionals, in order to carry out 70,000 tests a week with the utmost guarantee of quality.
The recent agreement with SICPA allows the Alianza-COVID19 to deliver forgery-proof assurance certificates on paper or on mobile phones via SICPA’s CERTUS™ solution. This will allow citizens to show their test result certificates, wherever and whenever they are required, with a guarantee of quality and using a system that ensures their absolute legitimacy.
About Alianza COVID-19
Alianza COVID-19 is a consortium that brings together biotechnology companies and certified laboratories and offers a comprehensive service for detecting COVID-19 using a quantitative antibody test (ELISA) and PCR technique, with results in 48-72 hours, throughout the national territory. The consortium has the capacity to offer 70,000 weekly tests with the maximum guarantee of quality. As of April 2, 2020, they are offering their tests to nursing homes, hospitals and clinics, companies and prevention services, other groups such as schools or educational institutions, as well as private individuals.
About SICPA
SICPA is a leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, integrating material-based covert features and digital technologies. Founded in 1927, headquartered in Switzerland and operating globally, SICPA protects the majority of the world’s banknotes, security and value documents from the threats of counterfeiting and fraud.
SICPA is also Enabling Trust in the digital world with solutions meeting a diverse range of challenges – protecting land registries, electoral integrity, diplomas, the supply chain for precious metals and an international health passport relevant to managing COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
SICPA’s mission is to Enable Trust through constant innovation.
