Trusted Applications: an Interoperability Parable

Imagine you have to go to the Florida Blues Deerwood campus to pick up a copy of your significant other Sam's claims history. (I am picking on Florida Blues because Deerwood is a compound, you pretty much have to drive there, and there is an only-friendly-to-cars guard gate. What follows is fiction, not what actually … Continue reading Trusted Applications: an Interoperability Parable →

Informational Identities and Personal Privacy: Persistence and Use

This post is one in an ongoing series (starting here) in which I am developing the concept of 'Informational Identity'. Your name, your legal identities, your digital identities, are all the same kind of thing:  information tools created to pick you out of a crowd, to refer to you when you are not present, to … Continue reading Informational Identities and Personal Privacy: Persistence and Use →

Informational Identities and Personal Privacy: Instrumentation, Observation and Reporting

This post is one in an ongoing series (starting here) in which I am developing the concept of 'Informational Identity'. Your name, your legal identities, your digital identities, are all the same kind of thing:  information tools created to pick you out of a crowd, to refer to you when you are not present, to … Continue reading Informational Identities and Personal Privacy: Instrumentation, Observation and Reporting →

Personal Identity Snapshots in Informational Identities

This post is one in an ongoing series (starting here) in which I am developing the concept of 'Informational Identity'. Your name, your legal identities, your digital identities, are all the same kind of thing:  information tools created to pick you out of a crowd, to refer to you when you are not present, to … Continue reading Personal Identity Snapshots in Informational Identities →

We don’t need Unique Patient Identifiers, we need ‘proof of healthcare identity’ credentials

In my last post, I maintained that individual identifiers, such as a username or user ID, as used in Informational Identity Management - legal, transactional and digital identity management - are fundamentally a kind of credential. With the advent of "…a standard unique identifier for an individual…", commonly referred to as a Unique Patient Identifier, … Continue reading We don’t need Unique Patient Identifiers, we need ‘proof of healthcare identity’ credentials →

Identity, Credential and Access Management Isn’t Exactly About Identity

This post is one in an ongoing series (starting here) in which I am developing the concept of 'Informational Identity'. Your name, your legal identities, your digital identities, are all the same kind of thing:  information tools created to pick you out of a crowd, to refer to you when you are not present, to … Continue reading Identity, Credential and Access Management Isn’t Exactly About Identity →

Identity: Turtles All the Way Down

My thinking catalyzed by the great dialog among national healthcare identity experts at the ONC/CARIN Identity Summit in Washington DC June 4th, a notion I’ve been worrying for some time finally precipitated out: identity is turtles all the way down. There is not a digital identity separate and distinct from one’s legal identity. There is … Continue reading Identity: Turtles All the Way Down →