1. Summary Report
Project Name: Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifiers
Brief Project Description: The VUHID project enables patients who are members of a health information exchange to obtain a globally unique set of healthcare IDs to enable error-free patient identification and enhanced privacy management of clinical data.
Major milestones to date: Server operational, 2008
Projected milestones: Production system, Q3, 2010, first HIE operational Q3, 2010
Major release dates: NA
Contribution date: Currently available for integration
Contribution value: 20 person years
The Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier (VUHID, pronounced “view hid”) project represents 22 years of development work based on two ASTM international standards. The project aims to facilitate healthcare information exchange and “meaningful use” by making available unique healthcare identifiers that can be used to enable error-free patient identification and enhanced privacy management of clinical information that operates across clinical, geographic, and operational boundaries. The basic VUHID server has been available since 2008 and we are actively seeking health information exchange beta test sites to help demonstrate the value and benefits that the system provides.

2. VUHID Project Q2/2010 Boca Chart
Content
Pressures
Added
Identify funding options
Establish beta test sites
Engage EMPI vendors and
systems integrators
Engage health information
exchanges
Overcome industry un-
certainty due to reform
legislation
VUHID server demo system
completed
HIMSS patient identity integrity
white paper published
CAP Today article on VUHID
published
Veteran’s Administration has
used Version 1 VUHID
IDs for 12 years for 16
million veterans
Participating in joint grant
application with an HIE
Deleted & Changed
Dependencies
Milestones
Funding continues to be a challenge in the current healthcare environment. The current phase of ARRA healthcare reform is just beginning to gain momentum and is anticipated will to produce a significant amount of activity during the second half of Recently the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) published a patient identity integrity white paper that specified the need for unique healthcare identifiers to supplement the operation of enterprise master person index systems. This white paper was chosen by HIMSS as its top legislative priority for the year In addition the Journal CAP today published an article elaborating on the need for a unique healthcare identifier and commenting on the counterproductive nature of the current congressional ban on studying this issue.
The VUHID server has now been running in test mode for 18 months and has issued one test identifier for each person in the United States. In addition, a demonstration system has been developed that illustrates how the VUHID can support the activities of individual EMPI systems.
Packaging Editions
Develop a spectrum of
operational beta sites
VUHID server has been
running for 18 months
One identifier now issued for
each person in the U.S.
Unique ID was HIMSS #1
legislative request
Demo system operational
Joint HIMSS/VA presentation
at HIMSS virtual conf.
Statistics
Over 300 million test VUHID
identifiers issued

3. Major Dates and Deliverables Q2, 2010
12 Month Rolling Plan
Major Dates and Deliverables
Q2, 2010
2Q11
Full VUHID management system deployed
1Q11
Accelerate market deployment
4Q10
Begin substantial market deployment
We anticipate that by the end of the second quarter of 2010, Global Patient Identifiers Inc. will have achieved sufficient revenue to emerge from its financial hibernation phase. When that occurs we intend to begin more aggressive marketing in order to establish and promote beta test sites around the country. Over time, these test sites will form the basis upon which the value of VUHID identifiers can be demonstrated in a variety of clinical situations. This should lead to an accelerating deployment of the system as other health information exchanges begin to realize the benefits and value that they can achieve through the use of VUHID identification capabilities.
3Q10
Initiate aggressive marketing, launch initial grant project
2Q10
GPII emerges from financial ‘hibernation’, establish production system