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Health Cards Framework: implementation guide and supporting material
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Create 003-vaccine-exemptions.md #224

Closed jmandel closed 2 years ago

jpp9 commented 2 years ago

looks great. one suggestion:

the doc conveys one of the challenges with exemptions as you read through (the intent of SHCs is to convey clinical facts, not a ‘status’ like is a person exemption from vaccination, but in this case the clinical facts themselves are in conflict with the privacy objectives), but might be good to spell that out in the warning, eg:

*Conveying "exemption status" is beyond the SMART Health Cards design intent.** On the other hand, conveying the clinical (or other relevant) facts behind an exemption raises significant privacy concern. If jurisdictions intend to move ahead in this space, VCI has developed a set of policy and technical considerations.

and a couple of small fixes:

jmandel commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the close read! I incorporated your suggestions and will merge as a draft RFC.