Federal Register Notice

Dear XSPA Colleagues

 

1. Federal Register Notice

 

Attached is a notice published in the Federal Register
announcing the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services’ acceptance of
Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Interoperability
Specifications (IS).   IS listed in the Notice require the use of
HITSP/TP20 Access Control Transaction
Package.  As described at the end of the notice, acceptance
triggers legal obligations to use the standards cited by HITSP within certain
U.S. Federal agencies and between those agencies and non-agencies.  

 

2. Why this is Significant

 

The Notice specifies several OASIS standards but does not
include profiles that provide the specificity required of a standards-based
interoperable cross-enterprise authorization exchange.  Our work at HIMSS
will concentrate the expertise required to formalize these necessary profiles. 
 HITSP continues to follow our progress closely and is expected to update
TP20 with the XSPA profiles once they become OASIS standards. A future
Federal Registry notice is expected to trigger legal obligations to use the
XSPA profiles under the conditions cited in the Notice.  

 

3. Impact on Healthcare

 

The President’s agenda includes lowering healthcare costs
by “[investing] $10 billion a year over the next five years to move the U.S. health
care system to broad adoption of standards-based
electronic health information systems, including electronic health records.” 
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/health_care)
 Our work will provide standards-based security and privacy access control
solutions that will help make that that investment successful.  

 

Regards,

David

 

David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC)

Veterans Health Administration

Chief Health Informatics Office

Emerging Health Technologies

Office: 858 433 1473

 

Federal Register.pdf