Fierce Health Payers March 18, 2021
Heather Landi

Customers at Walmart and Sam’s Clubs may soon be able to verify that they have received a COVID-19 vaccine by showing an app on their smartphones.

The retail giant announced Wednesday that it will provide access to digital health records, including vaccination information, to people who receive their shots at Walmart and Sam’s Clubs.

Walmart is working with The Commons Project and Clear, an identity management platform, to make the digital health records available. The records will be available via the organizations’ app called the Health Pass by Clear, as well as the CommonHealth and CommonPass apps.

Currently, most patients who have been vaccinated against the virus only get a small piece of paper as proof. Those papers are easy...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Health IT, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Retailer, Technology
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