IBM has integrated its Watson Health platform with workforce health consulting firm Healthcare IT Leaders’ software to provide organisations with a wide ranging set of organisation-wide COVID-19 services. The collaboration has integrated IBM Watson’s Digital Health Pass with Healthcare IT Leaders’ Healthy Returns.

The IBM Digital Health Pass is designed to enable organisations to verify COVID-19 test results or vaccination status for employees, customers and visitors entering their site, such as a sports stadium, aeroplane, university, government building or workplace. Relying on a combination of encryption, QR codes and blockchain technology, the IBM Digital Health Pass is a secured, voluntary digital alternative to paper test results or vaccination cards and provides another option, if needed, for individuals to share that they have tested negative or been vaccinated for COVID-19.

Services offered through the Healthcare IT Leaders Healthy Returns practice include managed COVID-19 testing, delivered onsite or at home with enterprise-level reporting, and a range of vaccination support services.

IBM Digital Health Pass can help generate secure COVID-19 vaccination and test credentials through a network of labs and providers, such as Healthcare IT Leaders. Multiple types of COVID-19 health credentials, in addition to the IBM Digital Health Pass, such as Good Health Pass, SMART Health Card and EU Digital COVID Certificate, can be verified with the IBM Digital Health Pass Verify app with its multi-credential verification capability.

“New regulations are challenging many organisations to implement COVID-19 testing and vaccination requirements in their workplace or businesses,” said Bob Bailey, Principal and Founder, Healthcare IT Leaders. “We are working with organisations such as the American Logistics Association (ALA) and many others to streamline and make the process of COVID-19 status verification easier with the use of the IBM Digital Health Pass.”

President of ALA Steve Rosetti said, “It’s important to provide a digital ID designed to cut through complex procedures and produce a secure COVID-19 credential that is easily produced, recognised and validated by our clients.”

“We are committed to collaborating with organisations and industry groups to support the use of digital COVID-19 health credentials,” said Eric Piscini, Global Vice President, Emerging Business Networks, IBM Watson Health. “We are delighted to be working with Healthcare IT leaders to integrate IBM Digital Health Pass into their applications and existing organisational networks to deliver unique solutions to our clients.”