The California Department of Technology announced it’s published the code for the Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record program in hopes that other states’ IT and public health teams adopt and improve the service. The department published the source code for the program, which is used to store residents’ coronavirus vaccination statuses, on the online code repository GitHub. In a post on CDT’s blog, Rick Klau, the state’s chief technology innovation officer, wrote that his agency is sharing both the user-interface code and API on its vaccine passes, which can be plugged into another state’s own vaccine records to create a digital, mobile record. Benjamin Freed has more on StateScoop.

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