Re: Intel and AMA to post medcial records online

[Peter Marshall <techdiff@ix.netcom.com>]

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>     The important part of making this technology work is building a community
> process for issuing, managing and revoking these keys. 

And a "community process" is...?

 If you don't trust this
> process, then the whole system isn't trusted.

Fair enough, as far as it goes....

  I doubt that most individuals
> will trust an Intel issuing keys to lock up their medical records.  After all,
> Intel's first alliegence, is to make money, then keeping their stock prices
> high, and somewhere down on the list is keeping medical records private!

True enough, but what about the AMA's role in this?
 
>     In MN, we are building a community process to issue, manage, and revoke
> keys, targeted at just health care professionals, not patients.

Is that in part simply because it's the pros who are 
the market?

  We hope to have
> a pilot running in the next few weeks to test this technology.  Again, the
> bottom line is trust, and trust rarely extends beyond your ability to have a
> meeting and talk to everybody involved.  That is why I believe community efforts
> like our will ultimately prove workable, vs. national systems.

What is it that defines the project as a "community 
effort?" Related questions would involve what MHDI 
is and where their funding comes from....

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Peter Marshall
> Peter Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > At 12:54 PM 10/12/1999 -0400, Duncan Kinder wrote:
> > > >According to the following article, Intel and the AMA are working to post
> > medical records online:
> > > >
> > > >http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-850021.html
> > > >
> >
> > Has anyone been able to work out just what this authentication
> > technology is? There's nothing in the Intel or AMA press releases about
> > it.
> >
> > --
> > Pete Mitchell
> 
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