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Identity Collaboration Day – notes now available from Feb. 14, 2011
by Dervla O'Reilly 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Thanks to all who attended the Identity Collaboration Day on February 14 in San Francisco. Most of the notes are available from the sessions online at the IIW wiki page – stay tuned for further submissions in the coming days. Please direct questions to iiwnotes(a)gmail.com ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org http://www.kantarainitiative.org Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Member Opportunity: Ad-Hoc Strategy Advisory Committee
by Joni Brennan 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

(This message is sent on the behalf of Matthew Gardiner, Kantara Initiative President) Kantara Initiative is looking for Members to form an Ad Hoc Strategy Advisory Committee If you have opinions on how Kantara can be a more effective collaborative consortium, attract more members, and enhance its voice for and within the identity community, please consider volunteering for this strategy committee. As with all non-profits, the Kantara Initiative can only be as effective as its members make it. In an effort to continue to expand the reach and effectiveness of the Kantara Initiative, the Board of Trustees is looking for representatives from Kantara member organizations and/or members of the Leadership Committee to take part in a relatively small ad hoc strategy committee that will examine the current position of the Kantara Initiative and recommend a set of actions to the Board of Trustees. The initial goal of this committee is to present its findings and recommendations at the upcoming F2F meeting in Berlin in mid-May. Please indicate your interest by sending a brief note to Kantara’s Secretary and Treasurer, Lucy Lynch of ISOC at lynch(a)isoc.org . Best Regards, Matthew Gardiner ********************************* =Joni Joni Brennan IEEE-ISTO Kantara Initiative | Executive Director voice:+1 732-226-4223 email: joni @ ieee-isto.org gtalk: jonibrennan skype: upon request Join the conversation on the community@ list - http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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Reminder to Join: BoT Liaison Sub-Committee - ISO Review
by Joni Brennan 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hello Kantara Community, This note is a reminder to join our Board of Trustee Liaison Sub-Committee. This committee should be of interest to Kantara Members and LC Members who would like to provide review to liaison documents which are confidential (due to originating organization confidentiality). We currently have a set of ISO documents up for review completion this week. If you are a Kantara Member or LC Member who would like to join the review please join the committee [1] for access to the review materials, mail list and wiki space. [1] http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/liaison-sub-committee/ As always, don't hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns. Best Regards, =Joni On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Joni Brennan <joni(a)ieee-isto.org> wrote: > Dear Kantara Initiative Community, > > This message is to announce the formation of a new Board of Trustee > Sub-Committee - the Liaison Sub-Committee. This sub-committee performs > reviews of CONFIDENTIAL documents submitted by external organizations > including: ISO, ITU-T, OASIS, and more. > > Who may join: > > - Kantara Initiative Members > - Leadership Council Members > > How to join: > > - Provided that you are a Kantara Initiative Member or Leadership > Council Member you may join the sub-committee by filling out the sign up > form here: > http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/liaison-sub-committee/ > - Once staff confirms your sign up your account will get special > permission to access documents here: > http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/lsc/Home > > Take note that the documents submitted to this sub-committee are > CONFIDENTIAL and, as such, all discussions regarding these documents are > also CONFIDENTIAL to comply with the conditions set by external > organizations. We are pleased to bring our Members this sub-committee > opportunity as a new benefit to your Kantara Initiative Membership. We look > forward to your participation in the new BoT Liaison Sub-Committee! > > Additionally, there is a current set of CONFIDENTIAL documents submitted by > ISO SC27/WG5 regarding projects: 29100, 29101, 29190, 24760, 29115, 29146, > and 29191 for Kantara Initiative Member review and comment. Comments are > due in advance of March 10 2011. Note: the Liaison Sub-Committee may > schedule teleconferences as needed to coordinate responses for submission > back to originating organizations. > > Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this new Membership > Benefit please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly. > > =Joni > > Joni Brennan > IEEE-ISTO > Kantara Initiative | Executive Director > voice:+1 732-226-4223 > email: joni @ ieee-isto.org > gtalk: jonibrennan > skype: upon request > > Join the conversation on the community@ list - > http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > >

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Registration open for Kantara Initiative Meeting May 16-18, 2011 hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS, Charlottenburg, Berlin
by Dervla O'Reilly 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Registration is now open for the Kantara Initiative meeting May 16-18, 2011. Much thanks to Fraunhofer FOKUS who will host us at their Institute in Charlottenburg, Berlin. We invite you to join us at our 3-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene. Take advantage of the early bird registration which is available until April 15, 2011. We have a new pricing structure where you can sign up for 1 day or the full event. See the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space. We look forward to seeing you in Germany. Dervla ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org http://www.kantarainitiative.org Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Kantara Initiative & eCitizen Foundation announces kick-off of Patient ID Service (PIDS) pilot
by Dervla O'Reilly 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Patient Identity Service Delivers Privacy-enhancing Patient Control of Health Information – putting the Patient at the Center of their own Health Care Using New Technologies Piscataway, NJ – March 1, 2011 – Kantara Initiative and the eCitizen Foundation are pleased to announce the kick-off of the Patient ID Service (PIDS) project. The PIDS project is an effort to develop a new patient identity information architecture that will put patients at the center of their own health care. The project will work to help patients secure access to their doctors and medical records through health information networks like the new Nationwide Health Information Network. The project will be conducted by the eCitizen Foundation in collaboration with Kantara Initiative’sHealthcare Identity Assurance Work Group (HIA WG). Additionally, this project will benefit from strong multi-national stakeholder support within the Kantara Initiative community. Thanks to strong support from the OpenID Foundation of Japan (OIDF- Japan) and funding from Kantara Initiative, the eCitizen Foundation is well poised for completion of Phase One (planning) of this project on behalf of the HIA WG. Phase Two of this project will be an implementation of a patient identity service using the identity architecture developed in Phase One. This implementation will serve as an open model for all, especially in the development of Health Information and Health Benefit Exchanges and in the adoption of Electronic and Personal Health Records. Incorporation of such a patient identity service by existing and new service providers will provide patients with a necessary tool to protect their privacy and securely access their health records. Providers will benefit as the patient identity service enables meeting “Meaningful Use” requirements such as Patient Access mandated under recent federal statutes that will be used as a basis for incentive payments to health care providers. The service will allow patients to request and receive medical records from their doctors, a key requirement for compensation under the new federal law. In the proposed Use Case, an example patient, a student from State A away at college in State B, needs health care for a condition initially treated at home in State A. While at college, the patient needs to seek follow-up or related treatment from a provider in State B. Previous medical records will help in the new treatment and reduce overall costs for treatment. The patient will request medical records from the home-state provider, receive the records in a personal health record, and share that information with the new provider in State B. According to John Fraser, CEO of ApeniMED (formerly MEDNET), and one of three co-chairs of the HIA WG managing this project, “This project will help patients more securely communicate with their doctors and other providers to improve patient care and to solve one of the new federal requirements for doctors. I look forward to working with my other co-Chairs, Pete Palmer of SureScripts, and Rick Moore of eHealth Ohio, to further this important service to support patients and providers using the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network.” Shingo Yamanaka, Executive Director of OIDF-Japan, said “User Centric Personal Data Exchange is a key component of the next generation society, and we see that emerging OpenID ABC standard will be an important enabling piece of it. We very much look forward to the architecture arising from this project to feed back to the spec development process.” Organizations who would seek to assist eCitizen, OIDF-Japan and Kantara Initiative to advance this project should contact Joni Brennan with interested inquiries. About Kantara Initiative http://kantarainitiative.org/ About eCitizen Foundation http://www.ecitizenfoundation.org/2011/02/patient-identity.html About OpenID Foundation Japan http://openid.net/2008/02/28/openid_foundation_local_chapters/ ### Media Contact Joni Brennan Executive Director +1 732 226 4223 joni[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org http://www.kantarainitiative.org Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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