Fundraising letter - draft 5-14-2010
Dear Potential Funder;
Healthcare is moving rapidly to embrace electronic information exchange but there are significant challenges that must be overcome to make this a success. Accurate patient identification and privacy management are two such challenges. The Kantara Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensure secure, identity based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information enabling networks to become trustworthy environments.
One Kantara effort now underway is to design and prototype a patient-focused portal solution that would allow patients to securely interact with their providers nationally, in an open, secure and replicable way. The standards developed would be promoted as a national standard and support connectivity with the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
The Health Identity Assurance Work Group of Kantara is leading this charge and has recently approved a project to design and prototype this patient portal. The Work Group intends to hire the eCitizen Foundation to assist in this project.
In order to get started, the Work Group must raise $20,000, donated to the non-profit Kantara Group. Your company