Work Group on Consumer Authentication Policies for Networked Personal Heatlh Information

Scope and Charge

The Connecting for Health Work Group on Consumer Authentication Policies for Networked Personal Health Information seeks to make recommendations to authenticate the identity of individual consumers consistent with Connecting for Health principles. This includes identifying a baseline of policies and technologies to assert, within acceptable thresholds of accuracy, the identity of an individual consumer requesting copies of her personal data in an electronically networked health information environment.

Chair

Clay Shirky, New York University Graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program

Work Group Members

• Paula Arcioni^*, New Jersey Office of Information Technology
• Ernie Argetsinger, Omnimedix Institute
• Siddharth Bajaj, VeriSign, Inc.
• Dan Combs, Global Identity Solutions, LLC
• Jeremy Coote, InterComponentWare, Inc.
• Maureen Costello, Ingenix
• Phillip D'Angio, VeriSign, Inc.
• James Dempsey, JD, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Martin Fisher, MedicAlert Foundation International
• Thomas Foth, Pitney Bowes, Inc.
• Christopher Gervais, Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.
• Mark Gingrich, MS, RxHub, LLC
• Janlori Goldman, JD, Health Privacy Project
• Philip Hagen, MD, Mayo Clinic
• Jonathan Hare, Resilient
• Elizabeth Holland^*, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Mark Johnson, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
• Jennifer Kerber, Information Technology Association of America
• Kristy LaLonde^*, Office of E-Government, Information Policy, and Technology, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
• J.P. Little, RxHub, LLC
• Kathleen Mahan, MBA, SureScripts
• Georgia Marsh^*, United States General Services Administration, E-Authentication Initiative (former position)
• Philip Marshall, MD, MPH, WebMD Health
• Daniel Matthews, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Damon Miller, CapMed Corporation, A Division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc.
• Kim Nazi, FACHE^*, United States Department of Veterans Affairs
• Alison Rein, AcademyHealth
• Eric Sachs, Google Health
• Charles Safran, MD, Harvard Medical School
• Scott Schumacher, PhD, Initiate Systems, Inc.
• Donald Simborg, MD, Independent Consultant
• Michael Simko, RPH, Walgreens Pharmacy Services
• Michael Stokes, Microsoft Corporation
• David Temoshok^*, General Services Administration, Office of Governmentwide Policy
• Robert Tennant, MA, Medical Group Management Association
• Jeanette Thornton, MPA, America's Health Insurance Plans
• Allison Viola, American Health Information Management Association

Markle Foundation Staff

• Zoë Baird
• Carol Diamond, MD, MPH
• David Lansky, PhD
• Josh Lemieux
• Stefaan Verhulst