Vaccine passport imminent as health authorities meet with St. John's tech startup
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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Minister John Haggie will be meeting with a group of tech entrepreneurs from Memorial University on Tuesday to review an application they designed that could be part of the province's vaccine passport system.
Noah Côté and Austin Aiken, co-founders of Mdium, a company that specializes in secure data transfer, have developed a product during a work term at the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship to facilitate the transfer of photos between devices.
That product eventually became the basis for VaccPass, an app and website that provides users with a numerical or QR code once they upload proof of vaccination.
Businesses and events can then scan a code on a smartphone or a printout to access patrons' vaccination statuses before granting them access.
The system is similar to one launched in Quebec on Sept. 1 and rolling out in Saskatchewan later this month.
Blaine Edwards, entrepreneur-in-residence at health-care consulting company Bounce Health Innovation, met with Mdium earlier this year to review the possible use of their technology in that sector.
"Just through the serendipity of innovation, it was announced that the province was going to roll out a vaccine passport," Edwards said.
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