Folks_______________________________________________Following the UMA webinar, and a comment raised there about KANTA (the Finnish Healthcare spec that looks like handcrafted OAuth on a first glance) Jan Leindals reached out to me.Jan's Diabetes organisation is the recipient of funding from Kantara Europe's NGI_Trust consortium.I have encouraged him to connect with you all here.Kind regardsColin.................................................................................................Thank you for a very interesting discussion in US/CAN which is also relevant in a Nordic context.
The reference to Finland was about the PHR data repository, Kanta Services and not UMA. However, I found this paper though, https://www.kanta.fi/documents/20143/91486/PHR+authorization.pdf/9fdb48d0-a6c8-0bc6-10ab-35495ca030b4
In the Danish healthcare system the PHR data repository is a missing link. In Denmark the citizen do not get data rights to their health data (EHR) in the public domain – it is fully controlled by the government by using new national [digital identity] standard, in progress: https://en.digst.dk/media/14836/english_fremtidens-infrastruktur-for-digitale-identiteter.pdf
However, it is very immature how this will be implemented into the local EHR systems. This system consist of many sub-systems that is being integrated into the EHR system and no standard for UMA – each subsystem make their own standards.
For diabetes the healthcare system has a gap to control of the use of data from medical devices where multiple vendors have their own services. They are typically hardware inventors and their service lack use of identity and permission control. I promote that the PHR from medical device data and other personal behavior data will be implemented as a new data repository where the citizen have all the data rights and it open for innovation for all actors and new standards for identity and permission control.
To solve the gap for in Denmark, I am very interested to know more about the UMA protocol and if a standard implementation of UMA can be integrated into the Tidepool ecosystem [part of Jan's project funded by NGI-Trust] as a showcase for diabetes as a use case of UMA in the Danish Healthcare system.
Some discussion papers in Denmark/Nordic that might have your interest:
https://www.nordicinnovation.org/2019/nordic-health-2030-magazine
Best, Jan
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