2023-06-08 Cardea Users Group Meeting
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
Jun 8, 2023 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:
Transitioning to Hyperledger
Calendar transition
2nd&4th Thursdays for now will continue
Groups io: https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/labs
Helen is admin
Notes/Materials
Old notes and materials have been transitioned to the wiki page
Can track notes real time
Zoom/Meeting Invites
Will transition to hyperledger zoom
Recordings are posted to youtube as “playlist” people can subscribe to
Chat
Move from slack to discord: https://discord.gg/hyperledger
#cardea channel under Labs
Blog announcing transtition to Hyperledger:
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
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
Future Agendas:
Next meeting: 6/22