+1 On Aug 21, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Nat Sakimura <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board
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