XATP, Spherity, Trust.med, and Legisym Announce Interoperable Effort to Secure DSCSA Verification, Tracing, and Recalls
WASHINGTON, DC — October 11, 2022 — XATP, Spherity, Trust.med, and Legisym today announced interoperability between their digital wallet, credentialing, and routing services in support of secured enhanced verification and tracing activities required by the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).
By November 27, 2023, Authorized Trading Partners (ATPs) in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain will be required to exchange product compliance information, including drug verification and tracing data. As members of the Open Credentialing Initiative (OCI) and the Partnership for DSCSA Governance (PDG), XATP, Spherity, Trust.med, and Legisym support the use of W3C-specified Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), GS1 messaging standards and data attributes, and open standards to achieve safe and secure credentialing and information exchange between ATPs for verification, tracing, and recalls.
“With the DSCSA mandating electronic interoperability across the entire U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain, ATPs with a few hundred trading partners will need to field verification and tracing requests from thousands of new entities. We’re thrilled to be working with Legisym, Trust.med, and Spherity to provide ATPs with passports to a more secure supply chain.”
– XATP president Ben Taylor
Earlier this year, XATP and Spherity announced interoperability between their digital wallet solutions to enable trading partners using either platform to securely exchange and verify each other’s credentials as ATPs. With today’s announcement, XATP, Spherity, Trust.med, and Legisym set the course for interoperable credentials contributing to enhanced supply chain security, including integrations with Verification Router Service (VRS) solution providers and emerging solutions addressing the need for tracing and recalls.
“Under the OCI banner, we have delivered the world’s first truly interoperable exchange between credentialing platforms for DSCSA compliance. As credential-backed verification activity continues to accelerate, we’re on hand to support trading partners in leveraging their ATP credentials to drive expanded use cases.”
– Georg Jürgens, Manager Industry Solutions at Spherity
“Due diligence and cryptographic assurance are at the heart of the DSCSA credentials, and what makes them uniquely suited to enhancing supply chain security. Trading partners nationwide can rely on our root of trust to ‘check the box’ on their compliance activities.”
– David Kessler, President at Legisym
“By combining GS1 standards and globally adopted Internet technologies with the work of OCI, trading partners have the solutions available to achieve DSCSA interoperability. The industry must continue to work with urgency in order to comply with DSCSA requirements and make healthcare safer for everyone.”
– Thomas Cooper, CTO at Trust.med
XATP and Spherity have both launched programs for ATPs and solution providers to obtain digital wallets and test credentials for ATP authentication. Learn more at the XATP DSCSA Control Tower and CARO by the Spherity-Legisym partnership websites, or contact info@xatp.org and atp@spherity.com. You can also join us on October 12–14, 2022 at the HDA Traceability Seminar in Washington, DC.
Press Contacts
Legisym
Brittany Payson
Spherity
Dr. Christiane Wirrig
Trust.med
Daniel Kraciun
216–727–3961
XATP
Alex Colgan
902–746–3358
About Legisym
For over a decade, Legisym has successfully provided the pharmaceutical industry with affordable and effective regulatory compliance technologies. In early 2020, driven by the 2023 ATP requirements, Legisym began leveraging their existing Controlled Substance Ordering System (CSOS) and license verification technologies and experience, to engage as a credential issuer. By performing thorough credential issuer due diligence processes, first to establish a root of trust, Legisym promotes confidence in the trading partner’s digital identity prior to the issuance of ATP credentials.
About Spherity
Spherity is a German software provider bringing secure and decentralized identity management solutions to enterprises, machines, products, data and even algorithms. Spherity provides the enabling technology to digitalize and automate compliance processes in highly regulated sectors. Spherity’s products empower cybersecurity, efficiency and data interoperability among digital value chains. Spherity is certified according to the information security standard ISO 27001.
About Trust.med
Trust.med is a technical solution provider for the pharmaceutical supply chain. Providing Level 5 service and DSCSA compliance applications, Trust.med allows trading partners and consignees to effortlessly discover, communicate, and exchange data. Trust.med is powered by the .med top level domain.
About XATP
XATP is a non-profit member services organization created to enable ATP authentication, enhanced verification, and saleable returns documentation. XATP members include global enterprises, health centers, and independent pharmacists committed to assuring prescription drugs remain safe and effective for patients. XATP is powered by LedgerDomain, a solutions provider focused on healthcare supply chain assurance and visibility.
