IBM partners with Salesforce on Covid health verification process

IBM has teamed with the CRM provider Salesforce on an endeavor for workplaces and organizations to manage and share the vaccination and health status of their employees and guests in a verifiable and privacy-preserving manner.

IBM Digital Health Pass will be integrated with Salesforce”™s Work.com Workplace Command Center platform. According to the companies, organizations using Work.com can deliver wellness surveys to employees, visitors or travelers and help them schedule necessary Covid-19 tests and vaccinations while sending manual contact tracing alerts if there is potential Covid exposure.

IBM”™s Digital Health Pass allows organizations to verify the health credentials for employees, customers and visitors based on specified criteria including test results, vaccination records and temperature checks. Individuals are given an encrypted digital wallet on their smartphone containing their personal health information.

“At the start of the pandemic, many organizations deployed simple Covid-19 screenings, such as self-reported health surveys, to support re-entry to workplaces and other institutions,” said Paul Roma, general manager at IBM Watson Health.

“Now, as testing becomes more widespread and vaccine distribution gets underway, we are expanding the availability of IBM Digital Health Pass with Salesforce to help organizations verify an individual’s vaccine status and any other relevant health credentials.”

“With Covid-19 vaccines becoming available, companies and communities around the world are focused on how to safely reopen and get back to public life,” added Bill Patterson, executive vice president and general manager for CRM applications at San Francisco-based Salesforce.