[Openid-specs-heart] CHIME Launches $1M Challenge to Solve Patient ID Problem

[Aaron Seib]

I appreciate your expertise and action.  
I don't necessarily agree with some of your statements here but that is the beauty of open processes.  
Let's strive to do all we can - together.


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From: "Glen Marshall [SRS]" <gfm at securityrs.com> 
Date: 2016/01/24  7:07 AM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: HEART List <openid-specs-heart at lists.openid.net> 
Subject: [Openid-specs-heart] CHIME Launches $1M Challenge to Solve Patient	ID Problem 


    This is pertinent to our data-sharing use cases.  There is no
    current solution to accurately sharing/gathering patients' clinical
    data stored among various repositories.  In turn, that makes
    applying access controls across all of a patient's data in those
    repositories difficult.   I'm happy to see Chime's challenge.

    

    However, the related problem of discovering where all of one's data
    might be is computationally intractable.  It is equally intractable
    to gather and combine all access permissions and regulatory
    restrictions on patients' data, even if there were a useful means to
    do so.  (Both are equivalent to the halting
      problem.)

    

    Having a single "source of truth" repository is one direction for a
    solution, as is having a single access permissions source.  Keeping
    them updated with new data and permissions is possible, even if
    difficult in the short run.

    

    However, establishing unique URIs for each patient's data and
    permissions is the same as having a universal patient identifier. 
    That might be subject to current Congressional funding restrictions.
      

    

    

    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives on
      Tuesday launched a $1 million National Patient ID Challenge to
      develop solutions to ensure 100 percent accuracy of every
      patient’s identity to reduce preventable medical errors.

    

    http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/chime-launches-1m-challenge-to-solve-patient-id-problem

    -- 

      Glen F. Marshall

        Consultant

        Security Risk Solutions, Inc.

        698 Fishermans Bend

        Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

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        gfm at securityrs.com

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