National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)

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A Practical Guide: Beginning the EMR Journey

Ilene Yarnoff | Government Health IT | October 10, 2011

The migration to electronic medical records offers patients, providers and the overall healthcare system a variety of compelling benefits and cost reductions — but we shouldn’t underestimate the challenges that stand between the idea of an e-health ecosystem and it becoming a reality. Read More »

ForgeRock Announces FederalConnect Solution To Accelerate The Rollout Of Digital Citizen Services In Support Of President Obama's Mandate

Press Release | ForgeRock | November 3, 2014

ForgeRock Inc., the leading open platform provider of Identity Relationship Management (IRM) solutions, today announced the availability of ForgeRock® FederalConnect™, a new solution that allows federal agencies to accelerate rollout of digital citizen services that integrate with the Federal Cloud Credential eXchange (FCCX)...

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Halamka's Report on The April 2015 HIT Standards Committee Meeting

The April 2015 HITSC meeting focused on the Certification Rule NPRM and a comprehensive review of the Federal Interoperability Roadmap. I suggested that a guiding principle for the committee’s work is to emphasize the enablers in the proposals while reducing those aspects that create substantial burden/slow innovation.   As a federal advisory committee our job is to temper regulatory ambition with operational reality.

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NIST Funds Secure Online Healthcare Transactions Pilot

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 21, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded $9 million in grants to five collaborative groups, including one for healthcare exchange, to demonstrate how online transactions can be secure and private as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Read More »

Notes on the April Meeting of the HIT Standards Committee

The April Standards Committee began with a tribute to Jon Perlin, who is leaving his chair role of the HIT Standards Committee so that he can focus on his chair role at the American Hospital Association. Jacob Reider, Deputy National Coordinator will serve as the Standards committee chair. I will continue as vice-chair. Read More »

NSTIC Workplan Available In Advance Of Implementation Meetings

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | August 13, 2012

The Identity Ecosystem Steering Group published a formal "workplan" (.pdf) Aug. 3 for implementing the White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC. The workplan comes in advance of the first meeting of the Steering Group in Chicago, Aug. 15 and 16. Read More »

NSTIC: Making A Case For Trusted IDs And HIE

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | June 12, 2013

Thirty-eight percent of adults think it would be easier to solve world peace than remember all their passwords – and many would rather undertake household chores such as scrubbing their toilet than even try. Read More »

OpenID Connect May Usher In A New Era Of Federated Online Identity

Alex Howard | Tech Republic | May 15, 2014

OpenID Connect is designed to replace username/password authentication. The protocol, in use by Google and others, may solve governments' needs to authenticate users accessing digital services...

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Pilots Move NSTIC From Theory To Practice

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | September 24, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded Sept. 20 five pilot projects worth more than $9 million in grant funding to demonstrate identity solutions under the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC. Read More »

VanRoekel: Agencies To Adopt NSTIC

Molly Bernhart Walker and David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | October 15, 2012

The Office of Management and Budget wants agencies to adopt the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC, to enable shared, citizen identity management across government. Read More »