Public Health Ecosystem Characteristics

Owned by Noreen Whysel
Nov 21, 2023
1 min read

  • Given: a vast number of participants have smartphones supported at the community level

  • Financial support. From local and state government and fundraising activities.

  • In a metropolitan area it is common to have 30 - 50+ non-profit entities receiving local government dollars and do fund raising to serve the local underserved population.

  • The entities, historically, have had aged technology that is poorly connected but that is quickly changing with Federal Funding to go digital couple with grants for 5G broadband adoption

  • COVID primed the demand for having networked systems that enabled real time access.

  • Currently, digital identity services and related capabilities are space and what is available are government issued via private vendors and are not, for the most part, healthcare compliant.

As we set the stage for a trusted federated framework, we need to recognize that the weakest link is the user and we will need to build a user profile around something they know, they have, and they are. And that will need to be coupled with the NSTIC Guiding Principles: and identity solution that will be privacy enhancing, secure, resilient, and interoperable; Zero Trust. Hence our building blocks, left to right are: Identity Devices Networks Applications Data As shared in my notice last night our finetuning effort will start with attributes (in a public health setting) verifying efforts as we attempt to address validation issues as we address relying party activities.