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2014-08-22 1:15 GMT+09:00 Mike Jones <[email protected]>: > Congratulations on the ONC joining! > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Don Thibeau > *Sent:* Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:47 AM > *To:* OIDF Board > *Cc:* oidf-marketing-committee > *Subject:* US Government Office of the National Coordinator for Health > Information Technology (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation > > > > > > *US Government Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information > Technology (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation* > > The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology > (ONC) located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of > Health and Human Services (HHS) has joined the OpenID Foundation > (OIDF). ONC is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of > nationwide efforts to implement and utilize the most advanced health > information technology for the electronic exchange of health information. > > ONC is at the forefront of the Administration’s Health IT efforts and is a > key standards development resource to the national health system to support > the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of > nationwide health information exchanges. Ms. Debbie Bucci will join the > Board of Directors of the OpenID Foundation as the ONC representative. > > The ONC plans to lead a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) working > group to create a profile of OpenID Connect and associated pilot > projects. Ms. Bucci, an IT Architect in the Implementation and Testing > Division, is helping lead a profiling and interoperability testing effort > at ONC and will be one of the leaders of the HIE working group. > > Don Thibeau, Executive Director of the OIDF, pointed out that this public > sector effort parallels the increasing global adoption among large > commercial enterprises. Google, Microsoft, Ping identity, Salesforce, > ForgeRock and others have embraced OpenID Connect as fundamental to their > identity initiatives. Thibeau noted, "After the launch of OpenID Connect > early this year, the OIDF finds itself working on one of the hardest use > cases in identity; patient medical records at the same time as working on > the platform of choice; the mobile device. Working with OIDF member > organizations like the ONC, GSMA and others brings important domain > expertise and a user-centric focus to these OIDF working groups. These > standards development activities are loosely coupled with pilots in the US, > UK and Canada." > > If you are interested in the HIE working group, please consider attending > the OpenID Day on RESTful Services in Healthcare at MIT on September 19th > in Cambridge, MA. This event will focus on emerging Web-scale technologies > as applied to health information sharing. The focus will be on group > discussion among MIT's expert participants. The OIDF will follow its > standards development process while MIT leads outreach and industry > engagement. This day is part of the 2-day annual MIT KIT Conference at MIT > on September 18-19. For more information on this event and to register, > please visit http://kit.mit.edu/events. > > > > Don Thibeau > > *The OpenID Foundation* <http://openid.net> > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OIDF Marketing Committee" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to *[email protected]* > <[email protected]>. > For more options, visit *https://groups.google.com/d/optout* > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OIDF Marketing Committee" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Nat Sakimura (=nat) Chairman, OpenID Foundation http://nat.sakimura.org/ @_nat_en
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