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  • To view the summary presented to the HIT Standards Committee on August 17th, 2011, please click here

 

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Challenge

Nationwide exchange of health information requires a fabric of trust that enables secure data transfer and identity assurance among providers, HIEs and other healthcare industry participants. A nationwide trust fabric is greatly facilitated by methods that are secure, standardized, and broadly adopted. These methods help to set and query the identity policies and attributes of standards-based digital certificates, enabling a variety of contexts for secure exchange (signing, encryption, TLS, etc.).

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