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1 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

2 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: ) 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.

3 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: Full Charter is at:

4 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:

5 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


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