Safepaths: Vaccine Diary Protocol and Decentralized Vaccine Coordination System using a Privacy Preserving User Centric Experience
This addresses privacy and coordination problems in public health systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing decentralized and privacy-preserving technologies.
The paper tackles the inefficiency and privacy issues in manual vaccination systems by proposing a decentralized protocol for secure vaccination workflows, status verification, and symptom reporting, aiming to improve efficiency, privacy, equity, and effectiveness while maintaining interoperability.
In this early draft, we present an end-to-end decentralized protocol for the secure and privacy preserving workflow of vaccination, vaccination status verification, and adverse reactions or symptoms reporting. The proposed system improves the efficiency, privacy, equity, and effectiveness of the existing manual system while remaining interoperable with its capabilities. We also discuss various security concerns and alternate methodologies based on the proposed protocols.