Folks: Please refer to http://www.w3.org/Addressing/Activity
DNS seems to work fairly well for the world-wide naming convention of web sites based on URL's. URI's take this one step further and define things, people even.
The management of URI's is a distributed one.
Perhaps we might consider taking the URI into the realm of patient identification.
Many thanks, Harold Mackey, IT Medical University of South Carolina
From: Thomas Beale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Master Patient Index systems and Public Health Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:07:59 +1000
David Forslund wrote:
I think this is exactly right.
I also agree with Tim's proposal- it can be made computationally equivalent to a single UPI, but only at the point / time of use; abuses would be much easier to identify. I think that the trick is to interpose a trusted third party (some small institution or part of government whose scope is limited, and which is transparent) between the interfaces of the different Ids; they have to investigate any request to use Ids outside their original purpose (e.g. request by the Tax Office to use Medicare ids).
At 01:46 PM 12/17/2003, Tim Churches wrote:
I agree, but we don't need a single, broad-scope Unique Personal Identification number. It is a recipe for abuse, just as the Social Security Number has been in the US. Instead we need lots of separate, narrow-scope UPIs, which are linkable, but only for good reasons and only through the auspices of an independent body charged with carefully balancing privacy against the public good, and/or with individual consent to link.
Dave
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