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- 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 input to HITSP to ensure alignment with emerging federal standards.
- Provide Kantara Initiative with subject matter expertise regarding the unique identity management and regulatory challenges facing the healthcare industry.
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- Reach out to other appropriate groups to invite participation, including organizations that already "vet" large groups of consumers, like banks, insurance companies, AAA, etc.
- Discuss and identify the many different ways consumers are likely to access health information, including web-based, cell phone, Instant Messaging and emerging services like Facebook and Twitter.
- Discuss and recommend how healthcare enterprises will deliver this functionality while meeting all regulatory obligations as set by various bodies worldwide, including the issues of patient privacy, security and patient consent issues.
- Educate the health care community on the principles of consumer identity management.
- Cross-reference between "vendor-specific" concepts and standards.
- Coordinate with Identity Assurance and Accreditation Work Group (IAA WG).
Emergency Healthcare worker health records access:
- Develop standardized use cases for health careworker access to critical health information
- Develop standardized use cases for healthcare worker access to health care healthcare information during emergencies, and for natural disasters at a minimum.disaster
- Develop standards for this exchange for countries beyond the US.
- Develop a set of "Trust Roles" that can be exchanged between systems.
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- Where appropriate, provide input to healthcare-focused NewOrg focused activities, including, but not limited to, policy and marketing recommendations.
- To provide NewOrg Kantara Initiative with spokespersons on healthcare-related topics related to the ID-FF, ID-WSF and SAML role in identity management.
- To act as an information gathering body within NewOrg Kantara Initiative that tracks significant trends in regulation affecting Healthcare IT worldwide and to feed this information back to the appropriate groups within NewOrgKantara Initiative, and where appropriate, with recommended actions (e.g. to respond to the US Government Request for Information)
- To provide inputs for external communications, such as collateral materials and contributed articles.
- Where appropriate, take part in the identification and planning of healthcare industry events.
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