What Exactly is a COVID-19
Digital Health Passport?
The Digital Health Passport works on an intelligent color mapping system (green, amber, red) to authenticate and validate a COVID-19 test providing test history and relevant health information. This allows for accurate data metrics to assess those who have tested positive and negative and the location only of their testing. The Digital Health Passport can be used as an authenticated gateway for Public Services, Businesses and Employees to manage a safe return to work, life, and safe travel.
The “COVI-PASS™” Health Passport User Journey
- The user downloads the app to their smartphone device and onboards their key information such as name, address, age and verifies their identity using biometric fingerprint or facial scan.
- The user then takes the COVID-19 test which is administered by an authorized Health Care Professional, Nurse or Doctor. The test is geo fenced to that location and the test results are then scanned from the testing kit into the COVI-PASS™Health Passport.
- A traffic light system then confirms their health status as either red or green, red for positive and green for negative. The amber color indicates a countdown timer to when another test would be due and required.
- The user can then show the COVI-PASS™ health passport to authenticate their health status. The health passport can also be scanned well outside the safe distancing zone of 2/3m (and beyond) while the person is moving and at various angles to ensure continued social distancing guidelines.
Commenting, VST Enterprises CEO Louis-James Davis said:
We firmly believe that the digital Health Passport alongside Government approved testing kits is the key to removing the lockdown restrictions in a gradual and controlled way. The current technology being trialed using Bluetooth and proximity apps is fundamentally flawed because of its privacy issues of real time tracking, the security and data breaches which we are already seeing and being reported and the reticence for citizens to uptake and download the tracing app.
The issue at present with other health passports is that not only is the feed of information voluntary, but the technology being used (in most cases a QR code or barcode) can’t be interacted with outside of the safe distancing zone. Data and sensitive information scanned or stored in either a QR code and barcode can be hacked and are inherently insecure, leaving data and personal details to be compromised. Both barcodes and QR codes are old second generation technology. VCode® & VPlatform® represent the next “third generation” of ultra-secure and versatile code technology to military grade encryption with over 2 Quintillion code permutations
The technology used in contact tracing and Bluetooth proximity apps currently being used by various Governments is fundamentally flawed. Not only can the Bluetooth app and its data be compromised and hacked, but it can also lead to false flag data. There are also real fundamental issues of privacy and being tracked in real time which most citizens will resist at all levels. This will also contribute to anxiety about the technology thus resulting in poor uptake. Without 100% uptake of the population using the technology, its data is ineffective and does not give a true picture of the virus tracing. Add into this the fact that Bluetooth can also penetrate glass and walls. So someone for example, who is self-isolating in a house that has tested positive for COVID-19 would give off a false flag to someone walking past their house who has tested negative, that they had been in proximity to someone who has tested positive.
