Summary

On Today's Call:

  • Review:  New Community Group connection instructions (calendar etc), review of project goals, upcoming speaker series
  • Presentation: Sarah Samis, VP Public Health Products and Platforms, GCOM

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97575630290?pwd=di9hNThXSXNhRVhkak1heXVGblM5Zz09

Date

9am PT/ 10am MT/ 12pm ET


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Attendees

  • Keela Shatzkin, Ry Jones, Helen Garneau, Sarah Samis, Ivan, Mike Ebert, Simon Nazarenko, Steve Davis, Tim Spring, Trevor Butterworth

Announcements:

  • Next meeting: 6/22

Agenda:

    • Introductions
      • Keela Shatzkin
      • Ry Jones
      • Helen Garneau
    • Discussion & Presentation with Sarah Samis & Ivan
      • GCOM, state and local government IT services company, work with most/many states across US
        • Vital Records issuance and management
        • digital identity solutions using verifiable credentials
      • Vital Records community goal:
        • pilot level digital certificate issuance by 2026
      • Vital Records overview
        • a form of identity credentials, used for a range of verifications of other critical documents, i.e. driver's license
        • Issued at local/state level, NOT federal level
          • 57 agencies (some states have more than 1, plus US territories
          • each STATE has laws the specify how these things should be collected and managed
        • Most other countries have vital records at national/federal level
      • User/community
        • State and Local jurisdiction staff
        • Providers who enter data
          • birth data
          • death data
        • End User/public requesting data
          • includes clearing house integrations
      • There are timeline requirements for providers to submit the data, especially timely death reporting
      • Use Cases:
        • Who's qualified to submit vital stats records, Medical Certification
          • Issuer: ED department (who oversees medical licensing)
          • Holder: Licensed medical certifier
          • Verifier: Health Department
          • Discussion
            • May require adjustments to state law if there are mandates on identity verification, to ensure verifiable creds meet/satisfy these requirements
            • Could be used to manage login to the reporting system
            • Supports the submission cycle
        • Birth Use Case: Public/Person requesting their record
          • Issuer: Dept of Health
          • Holder: person/parent
          • Verifier: Local school district
          • Discussion
            • Verifiable creds would help make enrollment easier and would be more secure by use of the ED systems
              • School could provider registration QR code
            • Supports selective disclosure
              • i.e. school district only needs to verify age for grade eligibility
            • Paper forms:
              • Long form includes ALL data including a lot of medical and family based data
              • Short form is more limited, but still may include more than what's needed for school
            • Children born to non-citizen parents have a really hard time getting birth certificates
            • There is a major value in being able to revocate access when needed
              • 18th birthday
              • Emancipated Minors
              • Amendments and Corrections, ease of revoke and reissue
        • Death Use Case:
          • Issuer: Dept of Health
          • Holder: Relative
          • Verifiers: Government, Private sector (titles, life insurance), 3rd party to Government
          • Discussion
            • WHY people died is considered super sensitive data point
              • can be managed by selective disclosure
            • Longer times for delivery can cause delays
      • WILL need tools to help interoperate because there WILL be deviation in the standards
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    • Questions:
      • Why are these not free?
        • Fees help cover the operating costs
        • There are special fraud protection paper requirements that also add costs
        • special cases may require a lot more investigation/vetting which requires staffing & resources
      • VitalCheck
        • software product provided by LexisNexis, this is contracted with local governments
        • MOST states are live with public/private partnership
      • How close is birth certificate to becoming verifiable credentials?
        • Since this is foundational document.... and sometimes we need to MAIL this to agencies, etc, how close is this to becoming real?
        • We think this is on the horizon, there is a lot of interest, NAPHSIS conference is investigating.  Some states are laying foundation laws for digital identity (Utah, Michigan, etc)
          • some drivers licenses and passports ARE already digitized, partially because they NEED to be more mobile, so they came first
            • This could help leapfrog the use case for birth certificates because the path is being paved and barriers are being reduced
          • There is a significant use case, could help with other state/government program enrollments
      • Technical formats?
        • Focus isn't on the tech detail yet, but rather the general goal of digitizing the data
        • There hasn't been a rallying around a single tech answer yet.
          • There is a risk for state based deviations here... but there is federal role to help fund and encourage states to move in certain directions... the carrot to drive toward consistency
    • White paper Update
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    • Future Agendas:
      • Next meeting: 6/22

Call Recording: 

https://youtu.be/IdvTBG9wtYw

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