Workgroup weighs user authentication standards
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, October 30, 2006
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The Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security Workgroup is considering whether to recommend a standard that would require physicians to identify patients before allowing the patients to access secure messaging and records systems, Healthcare IT News reports.
The group, a component of HHS' American Health Information Community, wants to make user-authentication recommendations by December. At its last meeting on September 29, the workgroup weighed in-person versus online authentication techniques, according to a minutes summary.
Although in-person authentication is a strong standard, the group acknowledges that it is resource-intensive, not easy to scale, and could be susceptible to social engineering. Online identity verification would eliminate these problems but raise questions about security and accuracy.
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