During the event for the inauguration of Hangar21 in Milan, the results of the tampons made to all those present, organizers, technical staff, guests and artists were certified for the first time on blockchain. And after being presented to the European body INATBA, the My Health Passport solution will now be brought to the attention of public and private institutions both in Italy and internationally, even outside the EU.
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My Health Passport is the app developed by blockchain company Italia.io, based on the Algorand blockchain. It was created to make citizens’ personal data and health information accessible, in the Covid-19 field, exclusively to authorized subjects, creating a universally verifiable credential, which guarantees the authenticity and validity of the certification through a simple QR code.
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The digital health passport is a fast and reliable tool to allow citizens to travel across borders, avoiding quarantine, and access to events and public services safely. […] In this challenge, Italy could be a pioneer when you consider that different solutions are being studied and some have already been tested. Like the My Health Passport app developed by blockchain company Italia.io, conceived last summer in conjunction with the return to the office after the first generalized and fully operational lockdown.
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The European Union has announced that it wants to speed up the creation of a digital certificate that attests whether its carrier has been vaccinated or is negative to Covid-19, a kind of Electronic Health Passport, in order to define certain and unique rules for safe travel between countries. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also urged Member States to work quickly on a solution to this problem in order to be able to have it available by the summer, given the timing of technical development and the testing phase.
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It is called My Health Passport and is based on the Algorand blockchain, public and green since it does not use pow, which consumes large amounts of energy, but a particular consensus creation system called Pure Proof of Stake. Europe is pushing the governments of the Member States to make valid proposals to arrive at an electronic certification with a QR code, recognized in all countries, which attests to the outcome of a tampon, the reached immunity or vaccination in an immediate, universal, non-falsifiable way, guaranteeing respect for privacy, as an alternative to the old paper certificate. In short, a kind of electronic health passport. A solution, already tested and used during an event in presence, that fully meets these requirements is My Health Passport, developed by Blockchain Italia.io, a software company specialized in fintech and blockchain solutions for process optimization, which uses the Algorand blockchain, conceived by the Silvio Micali “Turing Prize”, known for being green, public, safe and scalable.
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“I think it’s important. And, as I said, we need to have a medical requirement that shows that people have been vaccinated,” von der Leyen said in a meeting with portuguese media. “Whatever is decided – whether it prioritises or access certain assets – is a political and legal decision that should be discussed at European level,” explained the committee’s chair woman.
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