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Subject: RE: [egov-ms] Groups - Provisional 2008 Work Plan [New Proposed Standard for 2009]
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Colleagues In 2007 I suggested the e-gov MS support the development of a standard
for the exchange of health information (below) as part of their effort to promote
interoperability frameworks. This effort was discussed at the May 2008
e-gov member section meeting and the MS recommended that a new TC should be
formed outside the e-gov MS for this activity. I am pleased to announce that the Cross-enterprise Security and Privacy
Authorization (XSPA) TC has submitted two profiles for consideration as OASIS
standards and I am requesting that the organizations involved in the e-gov MS
support this effort. The proposed standards are now in the
familiarization process, voting begins October 15. I would be happy to discuss
the relevance of these standards to any member of the MS at their convenience. An XSPA demonstration of sharing health records between two government
agencies using the two proposed standards was done at the HIMSS09
conference. The resulting reference implementation has been adopted by
the ( Thank you for your encouragement at our 2007 meeting, the product of this
timely work should be valuable to members of e-gov MS in promoting an
international standards-based approach to the exchange of health records. Approval of an OASIS standard is based on one vote per
organization. Many of the organizations in the e-gov MS may not typically
participate in votes on standards from the XACML and SSTC TCs. That makes
your vote even more significant in achieving the organizational votes required
to approve this work as an OASIS standard. Thank you for your support. Regards, David David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC) Veterans Health Administration Chief Health Informatics Office Emerging Health Technologies Colin, I now agree with your comment "heading into standards
territory is not for the faint-hearted (in your 12/19/07 message, below)." -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:09 AM To: 'Colin.Wallis@ssc.govt.nz'; Carol.Cosgrove-Sacks@oasis-open.org Cc: egov-ms@lists.oasis-open.org; Davis, John M.;
jamie.clark@oasis-open.org; pim.vandereijk@oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [egov-ms] Groups - Provisional 2008 Work Plan (eGMS
provisional 2008 Work Plan071218.doc) uploaded Dear Colin Thank you for your kind comment, if the egov MS is not allowed to
ballot a profile to standard then can the egov MS set up a TC to do so? I am asking for the help of the egov MS because OASIS announced that
the MS would promote interoperability frameworks. The VA's goal is to ballot a Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy
Authorization profile so that the ANSI Health Information Technology Standards
Panel (HITSP) can cite it in support of the American Health Information
Community (AHIC) use cases as mandated by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS). This would serve as the basis of a mandated
interoperability framework for government healthcare and provides OASIS with
the chance to play a prominent role in government healthcare interoperability
frameworks. Concurrently, the XACML TC has accepted the challenge to address
Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization by agreeing to develop an
InterOp between at least seven vendors that will be shown at the 2008 RSA
Security Conference April 7-11 in In addition, I have been reaching out to privacy advocates through
Health Level Seven (HL7) to address the medical privacy sphere. Indeed, the
general outline of the profile has been suggested by HITSP when the gap in
standards was uncovered. So we can expect guidance from several
organizations and some members may join the TC to help push the profile through
the standards track. As far as resources, the VA will commit people to write and test the
profile developed by the proposed TC. I just pushed through a standard
(ANSI E-2596 standard on Privilege Management Infrastructure) and have three
documents being balloted this session in HL7, so I have experience in
developing standards. We also have a Security Integration laboratory that
is available to take on the development and test of the profile. I had originally asked IHE to address this standards gap last October
but they only take 7 profiles a year and their plate was full. This is a great
opportunity for OASIS to step in if they want the challenge. I will
recruit additional TC members and raise awareness of the effort at HL7, ANSI,
HITSP as well as the OASIS TCs that I serve on (XACML, SAML, and
WS-Federation). Unfortunately, the HITSP effort needs this profile to complete its work
properly. So waiting to 2009 to start up a TC would be infeasible. Anyway, perhaps the steps I have outlined above meet the constraints in
the later part of your comment. I look forward to reading your future
comments and hopefully exploring with the egov MS a way forward to developing
this important profile in government healthcare interoperability. I appreciate
your thoughts on the subject and look forward to working with you in the
future. Best regards, David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC) Veterans Health Administration Chief Health Informatics Office Emerging Health Technologies -----Original Message----- From: Colin.Wallis@ssc.govt.nz [mailto:Colin.Wallis@ssc.govt.nz] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:06 PM To: Carol.Cosgrove-Sacks@oasis-open.org; Cc: egov-ms@lists.oasis-open.org; Davis, John M.;
jamie.clark@oasis-open.org; pim.vandereijk@oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [egov-ms] Groups - Provisional 2008 Work Plan (eGMS
provisional 2008 Work Plan071218.doc) uploaded Heading into standards territory is not for the faint-hearted and does need a TC set up, which we are not. We (eGov) have just come from there and know the trials and tribulations. David, if I were you I'd 'walk before you run'. Develop guidance, get
it accepted as best practice and once you are confident you have a whole heap of motivated people to push this through standards track, open up
a TC, maybe early 2009. Cheers Colin -----Original Message----- From: Carol Cosgrove-Sacks [mailto:Carol.Cosgrove-Sacks@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2007 8:48 a.m. To: Cc: egov-ms@lists.oasis-open.org; Davis, John M.; 'James Bryce Clark'; Pim van der Eijk Subject: Re: [egov-ms] Groups - Provisional 2008 Work Plan (eGMS provisional 2008 Work Plan071218.doc) uploaded Thanks David. This is an interesting proposition. We will need to have feedback, especially from the Steering Committee. But there seems no doubt that health is a very significant item of public sector expenditure and a major focus of ICT applications within the general context of eGovernment. There could be a case for proposing an OASIS Technical Committee to develop these standards, but affiliated to the Member Section. and working in an integrated way. Thank you for putting this on the table for discussion. Best wishes, Carol >Dear Colleagues > >The proposed provisional Work Plan for 2008 has covers a
challenging >breadth of work products and I think the plan nicely supports the >egov-ms vision statement. I would suggest expanding Goal 2
from >developing eGovernment guidelines to also publishing eGovernment >standards. As you may recall in an earlier e-mail, in the
ANSI Health >Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and the
international >organization Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) have >identified a standards gap in the area of Cross-Enterprise Security
and >Privacy Authorization within government healthcare. > >Since this profile needs to be created, balloted and published by a
>standards group (and it involves a blend of OASIS standards such as
>WS-Federation, SAML and XACML) I propose expanding the provisional
Work >Plan for 2008 to include publishing such a standard. > >Best regards, >David > >David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC) >Veterans Health Administration >Chief Health Informatics Office >Emerging Health Technologies >-----Original Message----- >From: carol.cosgrove-sacks@oasis-open.org >[mailto:carol.cosgrove-sacks@oasis-open.org] >Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:06 AM >To: egov-ms@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: [egov-ms] Groups - Provisional 2008 Work Plan (eGMS >provisional >2008 Work Plan071218.doc) uploaded > >Please see the provisional Work Plan for 2008. > > -- Dr. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks > >The document named Provisional 2008 Work Plan (eGMS provisional
2008 >Work >Plan071218.doc) has been submitted by Dr. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks to
the >OASIS eGovernment Member Section document repository. > >Document Description: >This brief document sets out the main priorities for the eGMS for
2008 >- comments and feedback welcomed. > > >View Document Details: >http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/egov-ms/document.php?docum >e >nt_id=26569 > >Download Document: >http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/egov-ms/download.php/26569 >/ eGMS%20provisional%202008%20Work%20Plan071218.doc > > >PLEASE NOTE: If the above links do not work for you, your
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