June 2021

Date: 11 Jun 2021

Attendees

Agenda

Topic	Facilitator	Time	Notes
Updates on PSS and next steps	Dana Marcelonis	5 mins	PA WG unanimously voted to sponsor PSS Next steps in order - Dana to coordinate Review by FHIR Management Group. Meets Wed 4-5:30pm EST. Meena and Jim to cover on Wed Jun 16th 2021. Cover a general info, be prepared for Qs on overlaps with other initiatives, alignment with portfolio of HL7 projects. US Realm Steering Committee as this is a US Realm project. Meets Tue 1-2 EST. Meena and Jim open Jun 22nd and Jun 29th 2021. Potentially an eVote from the Administrative Steering division. Technical Steering Committee needs to review and approve by Aug 22nd 2021. FHIR IG proposal due in October (exact date TBD) Comments from PA WG Considerations for delegates (parents, legal guardians, etc.) and how do you have confidence in the delegate's identity? How can we factor in verification results, so we can reuse attributes for e.g. from the verification process? Expectations for clarifying and managing the differences between identity and patient matching. Carequality and EPIC using $match - we may want to reach out to these groups for input into IG
Identity Initiatives - landscape and context	Meena Jambulingam	40-45 mins	See notes below
Meeting Schedule	Team		Proposal to open up one of the two monthly meetings to public, once we are ready for external input. Target end of Jul/early Aug.
Interested Party	Dana Marcelonis		Public Health WG requesting overview of PSS. They meet Thurs 4pm EST. Carmen and Meena available on Jun 24th and Jul 1st 2021.

Themes we are seeing - Federated and Decentralized, identity and matching,

List of initiatives we are aware of:

ONC HITAC ICAD Report – member ID card standard
- https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/facas/ICAD_TF_FINAL_Report_HITAC_2020-11-06_0.pdf
CARIN 4BB Digital Membership ID Card & other HL7 identity work for public health

- https://confluence.hl7.org/display/ATT/PSS+for+CARIN+IG+for+Digital+Membership+ID
- https://jira.hl7.org/browse/PSS-1783?src=confmacro

CARIN Digital Identity
- https://www.carinalliance.com/our-work/digitalidentity/
- https://www.carinalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/LPCA_CARIN-Alliance-Federated-Trust-Agreement_FINAL-12.3.2020.pdf
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) – electronic insurance identification card
Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI)
Vaccine credential initiative looking at smart cards: SMART Health Cards Framework, Vaccination & Testing Implementation Guide (a FHIR IG based on smart card)

Matching

Pew - Biometrics-Enhanced Patient Matching Framework, https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/02/18/the-path-toward-biometrics-enhanced-patient-matching
Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality EHR Data Infrastructure, https://aspe.hhs.gov/severe-maternal-Morbidity-and-Mortality-ehr
- NIH on material-child health record linkage (they plan to use $match)
NIC developing proof of concepts for exchanging data among different sectors (e.g. health and prison system, child welfare, etc.). Includes looking at SDOH. Cross-sector person matching. https://hub.nic-us.org/groups/project-unify

Technology approaches for digital ID

Trust over IP. Cyptographic trust. Linux foundation. https://trustoverip.org/
Digital identity foundation. https://identity.foundation/
Good Health Pass Collaborative blueprint. GHPC Interoperability Blueprint Outline V2 (goodhealthpass.org) (decentralized identity)
ONC FAST – Identity solution patterns

Date: 25 Jun 2021

Attendees

Agenda

Topic

Facilitator

Time

Notes

Updates on PSS and next steps

Dana Marcelonis

5 mins

Dana update:

PSS sent out for Technical Steering Committee eVote week of 6/21/21 - this is the last approval needed: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/TSC/TSC+e-Vote+2021-06-21
Next HL7 milestone is to complete the FHIR IG Proposal, due October 31, 2021
1. Patient Administration WG needs to review/approve prior to FHIR Management Group review/approval
2. Template and other examples located in Confluence: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/IG+Proposals

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