On July 6, I presented an interim report on the “Patient ID System Project (PIDS Project)” at a meeting of the OpenID Foundation Japan.
The “PIDS Project” is a pilot project led by the U.S. Kantara Initiative and eCitizen Foundation as part of policy discussions concerning the U.S. federal government’s effort to network the healthcare sector. The OpenID Foundation Japan also provides funding and participates in the project. Specifically, it examines a model for connecting data on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), which has been under consideration since 2004, with PHR (Personal Health Record) systems such as Microsoft Health Vault and the Dossia Personal Health Platform, enabling individuals (patients) to control the flow of information among them. The approach under consideration has individuals use existing credentials from providers such as Google, with step-up authentication when necessary.
This presentation was an interim report on Phase 1 (defining the scope of the pilot, beginning February 2011).
The first half reviews NHIN itself, and the second half covers the PIDS Project. The materials are below.
The video included in the slides above is below.
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