Digital Identity Federation – Creating a SSO for US health care

The CARIN Alliance completed a year-long OpenID Connect-based Digital Identity Federation Proof of Concept (PoC) with the HL7® FAST Digital Identity Tiger Team, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) NextGen External User Management System (XMS) team, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and private sector stakeholders. Once implemented in production, the PoC?s work eliminates the need to create separate ?portal? accounts for data holders. The PoC recommended two preferred paths that will enable the health care ecosystem to allow individuals the ability to identity proof themselves once, establish their own digital identity credential, and then use that digital credential across multiple relying parities as their own ?single sign on? for U.S. health care. Speaker: Ryan Howells, Program Manager @ CARIN Alliance (convened by Leavitt Partners)