Kantara Initiative Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group Introduction to: Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group a project of the Kantara Initiative By John Fraser, MEDNETWorld.com October 22nd, 2009
Kantara Overview Founded: April 20, 2009 Trustees: AOL, BT, CA, Fidelity, Intel, Internet Society, Liberty Alliance, Neustar, Novell, NRI, NTT, Oracle, PayPal and Sun ( see: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Current+Members ) Purpose: To bridge and harmonize identity community efforts To ensure secure online interactions To enhance personal privacy To assure interoperability between OpenID, Liberty, InfoCard and other identity management solutions.
Kantara Healthcare Work Group Founded: August, 2009 History: Was Liberty Alliance Health Care Work Group Purposes: Implement patient access to their medical information and health care providers system using open source solutions Implement simplified health care worker identity management Review/Endorse identity assurance framework to support health information exchanges (HIEs) and the US nationwide health information network (NHIN) Review/endorse patient identification standards for on-line and card identifiers Work with vendors to help foster interoperability Current co-chairs: John Fraser, MEDNETWorld.com, Pete Palmer, Surescripts, and Rick Moore, eHealth Ohio. Home Page: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/healthidassurance/Home Full Charter is at: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/healthidassurance/Charter
Kantara Healthcare Work Group Look at OpenID, Liberty, InfoCard and other technologies Audience: NHIN Committees, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), HL7, HITSP, Others Work with other Work Groups at Kantara: Identity Assurance Consumer Identity and Privacy and Public Policy International in scope Using the “Creative Common” open policy as defined at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Goal: Health care simplified authentication Health Information Systems – Clinics, Hospitals, etc Health Information Exchange - HIE Interoperability for Patient Lookup Clinical Document Exchange Privacy and Security Hospitals HIE Gateway EMR Clinics HIE Gateway EMR RLS Payors HIE Gateway HIE Gateway PHR Simplified Sign Ons: to Clinics, Google Health, MS HealthVault, etc, or via iPhone or similar smartphone apps HIE Member Users Patient Logins Simplified Sign Ons Patients Healthcare Workers