Vaccination Credential Initiative

The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) is an American public-private partnership hosted by MITRE.

VCI developed the SMART Health Card, described as “verified versions of your clinical information, such as vaccination history or test results.”^{1) 2)}

The primary focus of the SMART Health Card is “on the use case of representing the minimal set of clinical data necessary to represent COVID-19 vaccination status and laboratory testing for verification purposes”, with support for “other infectious diseases as a secondary use case.”³⁾ It is based on standards set by Health Level Seven International (HL7).

VCI has a steering group which is made up of representatives from Mayo Clinic, MITRE, Microsoft, the Commons Project, Evernorth, CARIN Alliance, UC San Diego Health and Apple.⁴⁾

Members of VCI include:^{5) 6)}

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