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The Identity Tiger Team will focus on identifying identity-proofing and patient-matching solutions across multiple types of users.

Tiger Team Deliverables

• Identify appropriate national standards for individual and organizational identity matching.

• Define approach to implementation and testing.

• Identify best practices for reconciliation of identification across multiple sources. (e.g., patient matching)

• Build a proof of concept that demonstrates the critical architectural and technical capabilities required to implement identity cross-walk in real-time during the course of a FHIR transaction.

Current Identity Tiger Team Members

• Carmen Smiley, ONC, Team Co-Lead

• Julie Maas, EMR Direct, Team Co-Lead
• Vijey Kris Sridharan, United Health Care, Team Co-Lead
• Jeff Brown, MITRE, Implementation Guide Lead
• Paul Vaughan, Optum
• Jim St Clair, Lumedic 
• Rita Torkzadeh
• Catherine Schulten, Change Healthcare

Resources

Identity Tiger Team Resources as of 052418.docx

P2 FHIR Identity Team Kickoff Materials

GAO report on patient matching "Approaches and Challenges to Electronically Matching Patients’ Records across Providers"

A Framework for Cross-Organizational Patient Identity Management, The Sequoia Project

Patient Matching via Implementation Guide for Expressing Context in Direct Messaging (see Section 3.6)

Unified Data Access Profiles – (See Tiered OAuth profile, which allows a resource holder to obtain identity information about a user in a cross-organizational query)

DRAFT Matching Patterns updated to include new item 1b incorporating learnings from GAO report:

DRAFT Matching Patterns updated for discussion at 3/6 Meeting:

Powerpoint version (doesn't render well on Confluence but good when downloaded): Matching Patterns Strawman 2019-03.pptx

DRAFT Matching Patterns updated for discussion at 2/20 Meeting:

DRAFT Matching Patterns Template for discussion at 2/6 Meeting (tentative):

Argonaut Patient Profile

Da Vinci DEQM Coverage profile

OpenID UserInfo Response – allows a client to obtain identity information about a user

Argonaut Data Query IG

Diversity Key to Patient Matching (overview of RAND findings)

Recap of CARIN Digital ID Summit

• Ryan Howells, Leavitt Partners