DRAFT CHATER CHARTER SUBJECT TO FURTHER REVISION AND APPROVAL
(1) WG NAME (and any acronym or abbreviation of the name): _ The WG name, acronym and abbreviation must not include trademarks not owned by the Organization, or content that is infringing, harmful, or inappropriate._Potential Names:
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(2) PURPOSE: Please provide a clear statement of purpose and justification why the proposed WG is necessary.
The <INSERT NAME> Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group shall design, implement and test reference applications for secure access to health information. Two use cases are proposed that would be developed and supported as part of the work group. One is for consumers to be able to access their health records with a standardized login system, and secondly, a way for emergency healthcare workers to access critical secure health information during emergencies or natural disasters.
The goal of this activity is to engage the broadest community participation to facilitate the adoption of the reference implementations and specifications by the healthcare industry, worldwide.Specific goals of this group are to:
- Develop a reference implementation for consumer access, using open source solutions.
- Develop a reference implementation for emergency health care healthcare workers access to critical health information using open source solutions.
- Recommend, if appropriate, all or parts of these systems to be integrated with the emerging US Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) being developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Offices of the National Coordinator.
- Educate the community on how the system should operate and how such a system should function.
- Work with the vendor community to ensure interoperability between systems.
(3) SCOPE: _ Explain the scope and definition of the planned work._The <INSERT NAME> Healthcare Identity Assurance WG is chartered to:
- Work with US and international groups, such as national health services outside of the US, and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and similar US groups to recruit them into these discussions to provide the broadest possible input.
- Provide NewOrg with subject matter expertise regarding the unique identity management and regulatory challenges facing the healthcare industry.
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