AWS and Indian government unveil plan for digital health IDs

A repurposed COVID-19 portal could serve as a single, comprehensive digital health ID for health records, with a proposal from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and India’s central government, reports Business Standard.

AWS supplied the cloud infrastructure for the government’s India Stack applications, which included the biometrics-backed online Covid vaccine registration portal, CoWIN. Now, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has converted CoWIN into a universal vaccination platform called U-WIN.

According to Pankaj Gupta, the leader of public sector …

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