Smart Health Cards at the HL7 Australia Connectathon Nov 2021 (#FHIR)

Nov 5, 2021

HL7 Australia is running a virtual connectathon 23-24 November 2021. See https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/inaugural-hl7-fhir-trans-tasman-connectathon-registration-193185943357 for registration (free!).

One of the tracks will be focused on Smart Health Cards (see my earlier post about that), and I’m leading that track. So here’s a call for participation.

The primary focus of the track will threefold:

  • helping developers who need to produce valid smart health cards do that
  • Helping developers who need to read and verify smart health cards do that

Obviously those two activities will be extremely technical, very much a programming focus. For people who fit into either of those two categories, the two days will be a working session: producing SHCs, and checking they’re valid with the formal tools, and checking reading apps read them correctly. We’ll be focusing on covid vaccination certificates and lab tests, and we’ll primarily be doing exchange of certificates by email.

The fact that our primary exchange will be email, and that some of the tools are consumer ready tools: that means that non-technical people - policy makers, business analysts etc, they can join as well, so:

  • we’ll also have a focus suitable for non-technical people too, around understanding the use of smart health cards

That focus will include tutorials around how to use the consumer tools, understanding what you need to know about what’s going on behind the scenes, and discussing the policy implications of smart health cards. Finally, there’s a group collaboration project: what would the optimal process look like for using smart health cards to smooth entry management at very large events that require vaccination as an entry requirement?

Finally, for everyone in the track, we’ll have Q&A sessions with leading smart health card implementers from both Australia and around the world, and we’ll have panel discussions on the following subjects:

  • Smart health Card revocation
  • Bulk distribution of public keys to ease off-line verification
  • Australian profiles for covid vaccination and lab test cards

See you there!

Further details: https://confluence.hl7australia.com/display/AFR/2021-11+Virtual+Connectathon