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This report provides candidate recommendations that may stabilize the market rules while providing insight and clarity as to the opportunities and barriers that are associated with them. Terry Gold will be serving as the overall coordinator to lead the work effort. The HIAWG Chair will deliver the completed Feasibility Study to the Sponsors that have commissioned the effort.
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The Kantara Board (sponsors) will review and discuss report with other entities (such as EHNAC and DirectTrust with which they have executed MOU’s, and others as determined by them to be appropriate). The Board will determine which options, if any, may be pursued in collaboration to reach the goals of the Mission Statement (which mission statement??) .
Key questions that the feasibility study should endeavor to answer:
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The work will be broken down into three sub-focus groups.
- Business Case Focus Group (Terry Gold, interim group leader) - Seeking input from the industry, investigate and describe the overall challenges, considerations and body of the study.
- Overlap Focus Group (Rich Furr, group leader) - Performing a comparative review of the policies between each accreditation in scope and providing clarity where commonality, similarities and differences exist.
- Metrics Focus Group (Bob Sullivan, group leader) - Analyze the financial impact of achieving harmonization between TFPs and enabling organizations to execute accreditation more efficiently.
Participation
The Feasibility Study endeavors to be inclusive and benefit from a variety of experiences and perspectives. If you are interested in participating, please reach out to Terry Gold.