09:07 AM b.well Connected Health, which consolidates an individual's data on its platform across providers, pharmacies, insurers and devices, announced a partnership with Mastercard Thursday to assist with patient identity verification when accessing services. Mastercard's ID Verification service is aimed at allowing healthcare organizations to more easily authenticate patients' identification using their mobile phones. b.well leaders note that the technology could come in handy in the near future with so-called vaccine passports. "Embedding Mastercard’s identity solution into b.well greatly increases assurances that the person behind the mobile device is in fact the person aggregating the medical records, insurance and other healthcare data," Philips Johnson, chief strategy and innovation officer at b.well, told