This week, Lumedic reached a milestone—we began to roll out Lumedic Connect, a first-of-its-kind commercial technology to offer digital vaccine cards to patients receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at sites affiliated with Providence, one of the nation’s largest health systems.

As we continue to battle a global pandemic, manage the largest vaccination distribution in history, and keep our health systems operational, we find ourselves with the right conditions to move out of the digital era and into the patient era.

As COVID-19 testing becomes more common and we ready ourselves for a vaccine, we face the new challenge of how best to receive, carry, and share information that proves our health status.

Our charter has always been to rethink the systems at the heart of healthcare administration...