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- Work with US and international groups , such as national health services outside of the US, and including but not limited to: NHS-UK, Nathional Healthcare Systems (Potential with in the following countries: Sweden, Denmark, Japanese and South Korean), 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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- Develop standardized use cases for health careworker access to critical health information
- Develop standardized use cases for healthcare worker access to healthcare information during emergencies, and for natural disaster
- Develop standards for this exchange for countries beyond the US.
- Develop a set of "Trust Roles" that can be exchanged between systems.
General Goals:
- Where appropriate, provide Provide input to healthcare-focused focused activities, including, but not limited to, policy and marketing recommendations.
- To provide Kantara Initiative with spokespersons on healthcare -identity assurance related topics related to the ID-FF, ID-WSF and SAML role in identity management.
- To act as an information gathering body within Kantara Initiative that tracks significant trends in regulation affecting Healthcare IT worldwide and to feed this information back to the appropriate groups within Kantara 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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Draft Technical Specifications
- Develop a draft specification of our consumer connectivity to their health care records, and a similar draft specification for emergency access to health information.
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