{"id":107443,"date":"2025-08-30T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/107443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:43:11","slug":"alberta-set-to-replace-flimsy-paper-health-cards-with-new-alberta-wallet-app-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/107443\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta set to replace flimsy paper health cards with new \u2018Alberta Wallet\u2019 app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 29, 2025 2:38 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Alberta is planning to ditch its long-maligned paper health cards with a new app it has dubbed the Alberta Wallet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Holding her own crumpled health card, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the app will allow people to access their health card from their phone.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe Alberta government plans to replace the province\u2019s paper health cards with a new mobile card.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The announcement answers the public\u2019s longtime call for the government to do away with the province\u2019s flimsy, easily damaged paper health cards.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Smith says the app will protect users\u2019 private information using high-tech encryption software.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and two of her ministers also say a new plastic card integrating the health-care card with an Albertan\u2019s driver\u2019s licence will be introduced next year.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta\u2019s paper health cards will still be usable for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 29, 2025 2:38 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61184,45,49,48,84,44],"class_list":["post-107443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alberta-health-cards","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}