Andrew Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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).
Yes, as a public health person, I also have ulterior motives, as there are many public health applications which we need GPs and other health professionals to be able to authenticate themselves to (eg electronic communicable disease notifications), and depts of health need to be able to a) identify who and where GPs are and b) securely communicate with them for public health purposes, as well as for discharge summaries etc etc. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
