In the twenty-first century, the rising tide of privacy laws and massive data breaches has fundamentally challenged how we collect, store, and share sensitive information. Within this landscape, healthcare information is sacrosanct – and intimately tied to identity and data ownership.

Building on prior learnings with UCLA Health, Genentech, Sanofi, Amgen, Biogen and others, Zoogma is an effort to motivate the development of a standard for decentralized Verifiable Credentials (VCs). This will empower Authorized Trading Partners (ATPs) in the pharmaceutical supply chain to trade and exchange information in compliance with US federal law.

Starting with credentialing and interoperability for the ATP community, our ultimate goal is to chart a path to a global standard for all healthcare Verifiable Credentials – giving individuals and healthcare professionals control over their own data. By sharing our results and releasing essential components of the work to the public domain, we hope to align and connect with other foundational efforts, thus evolving standards within a truly open framework with broad stakeholder involvement.