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Sunday, April 10, 2022

COVID Travel—How to Store Immunization Records Digitally within Samsung Pay

Video 1. How to Setup and Use Samsung Pay (YouTube link)
 
Samsung partners with the Commons Project to give users fast, secure access to their immunization records.[1]
Samsung is making it easier to show proof you've been vaccinated, all through your Galaxy smartphone. The tech giant has partnered with health care nonprofit The Commons Project to securely store immunization status digitally within Samsung Pay, letting you get access to a bar or restaurant that requires you to show proof you've received the shots for COVID-19.


In this article, we will link the below information together:
  • What is a SMART Health Card?
  • What is Commons Project?
  • What is Samsung Pay?

What is a SMART Health Card?


A SMART Health Card is a type of verifiable credential that contains healthcare information such as vaccination or lab report data. 
A SMART Health Card has a 2D barcode (QR code) and may look something like this; see image below. Although the other information on your SMART Health Card may vary based on your individual records.



SMART Health Cards contain this information in a format that is secure, portable, and easy for entities like airlines, governments, and venues to verify. 
When scanned, a verifier can easily see that the information on the card has not been tampered with, making SMART Health Cards a safe and reliable way to demonstrate health status.

What is CommonHealth?


CommonHealth is a public service of The Commons Project, designed to make it easy for people to collect their electronic health record data (e.g., COVID-19 vaccination record) and share it with health apps and partners that they trust. CommonHealth leverages data interoperability standards, including SMART Health Cards and HL7 FHIR, to offer functionality analogous to Apple Health™ to users of Android™ phones.

What is Samsung Pay?


Samsung Pay simplifies how you pay, safely. Accepted at lots of locations thanks to MST and NFC support, you only need your Galaxy phone to swipe up from the home button and authorize the payment through its highly secure fingerprint identification system. Then place the phone against the card reader and you’re set, all in a matter of seconds.
Samsung Pay is so safe that it secures your payment information with several added layers of security, keeping it locked and hidden from any third parties. For further peace of mind, its built-in Samsung Knox technology offers nonstop monitoring. And should you ever lose you phone, you can simply deactivate remotely should it fall into the wrong hands.

 


How to Add Your Covid-19 Vaccination SMART Health Cards to Samsung Pay


After downloading the free CommonHealth app from the Google Play Store, go through the software's authentication process. Once the app securely verifies your vaccination status, you can then download your COVID-19 immunization record in the CommonHealth app and add it to Samsung Pay. 

The below is the step-by-step instructions:
  1. Download the CommonHealth app from the Google Play Store and follow instructions to access your Covid-19 vaccine credential.
  2. Once you have access to your Covid-19 vaccine credential within the CommonHealth app, click the “Add to Samsung Pay” link.
    • In the CommonHealth app, select "Cards" at the bottom tool bar.  It will show your COVID-19 Vaccination Card in a summary panel.  Press the panel (and several times if it didn't work) and it will swipe to the right.  In the next window, it will show your SMART Health Card information with "Add to SAMSUNG Pay" at the bottom.
  3. Open Samsung Pay and click “Covid-19 Vaccine Pass” from the homepage.
Once the Smart Health Card is downloaded, it can be shown at restaurants, bars, airports or other places that require proof of vaccination, as well as be securely shared through a QR code.

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