Developer Tech Minutes: SMART Health Cards

The SMART Health Cards framework is an open specification for an electronic version of a medical record. In this episode, learn about the technology behind SMART Health Cards and how they enable individuals to own and share their health records in a way that is cryptographically verified.

Presented by Karen Easterbrook, Senior Principal PM Manager, from Microsoft Research.

0:00 – Introduction of Karen and SMART Health Cards
2:08 – What principles do SMART Health Cards follow?
3:10 – What forms do SMART Health Cards take?
4:25 – How does the system of individuals, issuers, and verifiers work?
6:09 – Series of encoding steps when an issuer creates your SMART Health Cards
7:21 – Walkthrough of Developer Portal
7:52 – Closing thoughts and resources to learn more

For more resources on SMART Health Cards, including the Developer Portal and GitHub links, please visit our Tech Minutes webpage: https://innovation.microsoft.com/en-us/tech-minutes-smart-health-cards

You can also visit the SMART Health Cards website: https://smarthealth.cards/

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Karen Easterbrook