Greg,
ArgusConnect are involved in a major project with the TEDGP to revive
the whole concept of personal digital signing. We are working closely
with HeSA and CyberTrust.
Regards
Greg Twyford wrote:
Oliver and colleagues,
Until earlier this year I'd formed the opinion that the use of
individual HeSa certificates, as opposed to location certificates, was
dead. HeSa and MA had made them 'optional' for its online claiming, in
their efforts to get GPs using that system, which, of course,
marginalised their distribution for other uses.
However, in March Andrew Macintyre convinced me that they do have a
role, and his Medical Objects software currently allows their use for
both signing and encrypting referrals to specialists, and for
specialists to return reports to GPs. I've tested this, it works very
easily. ArgusConnect has promised to re-enable its use of individual
keys, which they'd taken out of Argus, as they [and I suspect MA] had
previously also reached the conclusion they were dead.
Andrew has about 1500 users on the sunshine coast, which demonstrates
it can be done. Whether HeSA and MA wills settle on the dongle or
smartcard version of the certificates is unclear. Both need software
installed on a PC to work, so the card reader issue is not the only one.
The game is still alive, I believe.
Greg
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Technical Director
ArgusConnect Pty Ltd
http://www.argusconnect.com.au
Suite 4, Greenhill Centre, Mt Helen
Victoria, Australia
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