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Healthcare: The Benefits of a Federated Identity

Terry Gold is Founder of IDanalyst, a vendor-neutral research and advisory firm focused on security, identity and privacy. He is an expert in advanced authentication, digital identity and services...
Terry Gold is Founder of IDanalyst, a vendor-neutral research and advisory firm focused on security, identity and privacy. He is an expert in advanced authentication, digital identity and services over connected devices and has developed core methodologies that assist corporate clients and investors simplify complex technology initiatives and investments. To read a longer white paper-version of this article, please visit www.idanalyst.com/healthcareid.

When HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was enacted in 1996, the fundamental objective was to enable portability of health records and coverage when someone changed insurance plans, and to reduce fraud and abuse. In order to achieve this, health information needed to go from being paper-based to an electronic format. It made sense since it is much easier to transmit and share information electronically. This created a requirement to ensure that such data, termed...
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