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Congratulations to Rainer Hoerbe on his election as Chair of Kantara Initiative’s Business Cases for Trusted Federations DG (DG-BCTF). The purpose of this discussion group is to identify and raise awareness of business cases around the deployment and adoption of federation models and systems – particularly the Trust Framework model. We look forward to Rainer’s strong leadership of the group.
When: May 13, 2011, 9am-2pm Where: Dolce Ballhaus Forum, Andreas-Danzer-Weg, 85716 Unterschleißheim, Munich, Germany (at the European Identity Conference 2011). What: 2011 brings new opportunities for identity services in the enterprise & consumer markets. Gain state-of-identity insight through a series of presentations of common scenarios from diverse market leaders. Join us at this jointly produced Summit where we will focus on the Trust Framework Model and explain in detail how this model works to solve many issues surrounding identity with special regard to governments and private sector success stories, use cases and projects. The Trust Framework Model is technology agnostic and provides a means for varying current and emerging technologies, governments and organizations to assure trust through certified credential issuance. Additionally, the event will present IdM related discussions and particularly highlight Telecommunications industry concerns and activities. We are also looking forward to hearing feedback and questions from the audience as input to the discussions. Free Registration: http://www.kuppingercole.com/events/kis2011 – click the ‘Register Now For Free’ button upper right corner Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Summit+2011+05+13
Thanks to all who attended the Identity Collaboration Day on February 14 in San Francisco. Most of the notes are available from the sessions online at the IIW wiki page – stay tuned for further submissions in the coming days. Please direct questions to iiwnotes@gmail.com
Registration is open for the Kantara Initiative meeting May 16-18, 2011. Much thanks to Fraunhofer FOKUS who will host us at their Institute in Charlottenburg, Berlin. We invite you to join us at our 3-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene. Take advantage of the early bird registration which is available until April 15, 2011. We have a new pricing structure where you can sign up for 1 day or the full event. See the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space. We look forward to seeing you in Germany.
Patient Identity Service Delivers Privacy-enhancing Patient Control of Health Information – putting the Patient at the Center of their own Health Care Using New Technologies Piscataway, NJ – March 1, 2011 – Kantara Initiative and the eCitizen Foundation are pleased to announce the kick-off of the Patient ID Service (PIDS) project. The PIDS project is an effort to develop a new patient identity information architecture that will put patients at the center of their own health care. The project will work to help patients secure access to their doctors and medical records through health information networks like the new Nationwide Health Information Network. The project will be conducted by the eCitizen Foundation in collaboration with Kantara Initiative’s Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group (HIA WG). Additionally, this project will benefit from strong multi-national stakeholder support within the Kantara Initiative community. Thanks to strong support from the OpenID Foundation of Japan (OIDF-Japan) and funding from Kantara Initiative, the eCitizen Foundation is well poised for completion of Phase One (planning) of this project on behalf of the HIA WG. Phase Two of this project will be an implementation of a patient identity service using the identity architecture developed in Phase One. This implementation will serve as an open model for all, especially in the development of Health Information and Health Benefit Exchanges and in the adoption of Electronic and Personal Health Records. Incorporation of such a patient identity service by existing and new service providers will provide patients with a necessary tool to protect their privacy and securely access their health records. Providers will benefit as the patient identity service enables meeting “Meaningful Use” requirements such as Patient Access mandated under recent federal statutes that will be used as a basis for incentive payments to health care providers. The service will allow patients to request and receive medical records from their doctors, a key requirement for compensation under the new federal law. In the proposed Use Case, an example patient, a student from State A away at college in State B, needs health care for a condition initially treated at home in State A. While at college, the patient needs to seek follow-up or related treatment from a provider in State B. Previous medical records will help in the new treatment and reduce overall costs for treatment. The patient will request medical records from the home-state provider, receive the records in a personal health record, and share that information with the new provider in State B. According to John Fraser, CEO of ApeniMED (formerly MEDNET), and one of three co-chairs of the HIA WG managing this project, “This project will help patients more securely communicate with their doctors and other providers to improve patient care and to solve one of the new federal requirements for doctors. I look forward to working with my other co-Chairs, Pete Palmer of SureScripts, and Rick Moore of eHealth Ohio, to further this important service to support patients and providers using the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network.” Shingo Yamanaka, Executive Director of OIDF-Japan, said “User Centric Personal Data Exchange is a key component of the next generation society, and we see that emerging OpenID ABC standard will be an important enabling piece of it. We very much look forward to the architecture arising from this project to feed back to the spec development process.” Organizations who would seek to assist eCitizen, OIDF-Japan and Kantara Initiative to advance this project should contact Joni Brennan with interested inquiries. About Kantara Initiative About eCitizen Foundation About OpenID Foundation Japan ### Media Contact |
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