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IAM HEALTH Presents at 39th IPP Symposium
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The 39th IPP Symposium focused on security and privacy, two issues at the core of health informatics. IAM HEALTH was one of five invited speakers at the conference held at Brown University. IAM HEALTH's CEO David Croston presented "Authentication of Outsourced Storage" with help from a Brown PhD student whose work is partly supported by IAM's long-term relationship with Brown's Institute for Geometric Computing. This talk focused on the practical implementation of maintaining authenticated files (such as personal health records) in an untrusted network (such as the Internet) storage service. What IAM was able to show was that this unique patented approach allows for proof of integrity (no changes have occurred in the files since publication) in an efficient and scalable way. This demonstrates that this technology is ideal for the application to proving that health records delivered to the point-of-care are trustable enough for practitioners to base medical treatment on them.
IAM HEALTH Solution Papers
IAM HEALTH HERMES Brief
HERMES, a services-based platform which securely transfers health records between hospitals and recipient institutions
IAM HEALTH HERMES Solution Description
Diagrams and architecture of the HERMES system and associated IAM HEALTH Registry
IAM HEALTH Overview
One-page datasheet overview of IAM HEALTH's Trusted Messaging Platform
Portability of Personal Health Information
End-to-end validation of Personal Health Records Making them Trustable for Treatment at the Point-of-Care
IAM Technology Background Papers
IAM Trust Authority Overview
A message-based security solution that provides real-time validation of present and historic data elements
Authenticated Dictionaries – Skip List
Implementation of an Authenticated Dictionary with Skip Lists and Commutative Hashing
Enterprise SOA
Executive white paper: How enterprises achieve real-time identity and data validation in a SOA
Validation on the Enterprise SOA
Dealing with the changes to the traditional security architecture of the enterprise
General Resources & Links
Securing Web Services with WS-Security by Jothy Rosenberg
A technical book about Web Services, XML security applied to Web Services and the WS-Security suite of standards that applies XML Security comprehensively to make Web Services secure, confidential and trusted.
ASTM
An open forum for the development of high-quality, market-relevent international standards used around the globe. Sponsors of the Continuing Care Record (CCR) standard used by most PHRs and for health record interchange between organizations.
The CCR Standard
A thorough PDF document of a slide deck treatment explaining the CCR standard. (Uses landscape mode so best printed and read on paper.)
HL7
Health Level Seven is one of several ANSI-accredited standards
operating in the healthcare arena. HL7 focuses on the interface
requirements of the entire health care organization. HL7 is much
older than standards like CCR which is an XML standard whereas
HL7 focuses more on message transport.
Panacea or Placebo: Electronic Health Records Come To The U.S.
An Ars Technica position piece on EHRs and what they can and cannot do to improve our health care system.
Portable Electronic Medical Records
A position piece by Jonathan Blackhall on his blog called Encephalosponge. He is responding to the Ars Technica piece which he is highly critical of.
The Power of Personal Health Records
A four-part special podcast on the promise of PHRs from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Videos
Certified Original Personal Health Records
An IAM Health video demonstration of how certified original health records will work to establish trust on the part of a new healthcare provider sufficient for them to base treatment on PHRs delivered through a browser over the Internet.
Eric Schmidt at HIMSS
A lengthy YouTube video cast of the talk Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, gave in Feb 2008 at the HIMSS conference in Florida announcing the goals and availability of Google’s PHR.
