> This would have huge advantage for the registration boards, because it > wold enable them to move to purely electronic dealings via the Web with > the majority of their registrants. The certificates could also be used > (and trusted) by a myriad of other organisations as a way of > authenticating health professional to Web sites etc - as well as > enabling secure messaging, system-wide.
See for me as an application developer, this is the huge win for a properly rolled out PKI infrastructure. No more usernames/passwords to remember and be scammed out of (we know how well that has gone for the banks). The ability to legally sign message (prescriptions, referrals), perhaps even implement some role based security based on what PKI RA generated your cert. Back it up with some decently structured LDAP directories and some really innovative stuff could be written. But I sense from a few comments on this list that HeSA certificates aren't exactly flavour of the month for a variety of reasons. I guess the question is, is any form of PKI certificate that carries with it some real legal responsibility for its use acceptable to GP's at the current moment?? Or is that something for the future.. should we be setting our sights on just deploying some simple, no legal hassle secure email infrastructure?? Andrew _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
