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US Government Awards National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Grant to Help Build Health and Education Trust Networks

Resilient Network Systems (Resilient) has been awarded an NSTIC grant as the prime contractor building a new system that guarantees trusted identities. Resilient addresses a key technical hurdle in distributed networks, both private and public. The Resilient Trust Network allows people and organizations that don?t know or trust each other to collaborate and share online resources with confidence across the Internet, while also protecting privacy and confidentiality.

President Obama initiated NSTIC to make online transactions more secure for businesses and consumers alike. Intended to foster private sector innovation, NSTIC supports the development of a voluntary identity ecosystem that offers consumers greater convenience, better privacy, and robust cyber-security protection. The grant offers an opportunity to validate the Resilient Trust Network as a breakthrough innovation that can overcome pervasive weaknesses in cyber-security.

Resilient has combined forces with a diverse ecosystem of partners to implement pilot programs that demonstrate trusted online access and coordination in healthcare, education, and entertainment. The Resilient team includes: the American Medical Association (AMA), Aetna, ActiveHealth Management, Medicity, the Kantara Initiative, LexisNexis, National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), San Diego Beacon eHealth Community, Gorge Health Connect, the American College of Cardiology, NaviNet, National Laboratory for Education Transformation, Riverside Unified School District, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, and Knowledge Factor.

?The Trust Network overcomes the traditional conflict between enabling personalization and policy enforcement while at the same time preserving privacy,? said Jonathan Hare, Founder and President of Resilient Network Systems. ?Education, healthcare, and online safety for children are important national priorities where traditional approaches to online security have fallen short.?

The Resilient Trust Network enables unparalleled levels of security and privacy by anonymizing data and partitioning execution and policy enforcement across the network. It utilizes neutral brokers to make queries, confirm claims, and enforce policies without revealing personally identifiable information. Novel Zero Knowledge services obfuscate data so the network can virtually link, analyze, and provide access to data and online resources from different organizations and systems, while ensuring that data cannot be used for unauthorized purposes. These capabilities make it possible to simultaneously tap into a diverse network of authoritative and previously unavailable data sources to match and verify identities and to enforce policies.

NSTIC Trust Network Pilots

The NSTIC grant covers two pilots that use the Resilient Trust Network technology: Patient-Centric Coordination of Care for healthcare and Zero-Knowledge Identity and Privacy Protection Service for education and children.

The first pilot, Patient-Centric Coordination of Care, will enable convenient multi-factor, on-demand identity proofing and authentication of patients, physicians, and staff on a national scale. This will facilitate coordination of care among a select group of primary care physicians and cardiologists. It will enhance HIPAA-compliant access to electronic referrals, as well as an advanced clinical decision-support service.

Two innovative health information exchange organizations were selected as pilot sites to demonstrate cross-state and cross-software platform coordination via the Trust Network. San Diego Beacon eHealth Community is a partnership made up of UC San Diego Health System, VA San Diego Healthcare System, Sharp Healthcare, Scripps Health, Kaiser Permanente, and others. Gorge Health Connect links hospitals, health centers, primary care providers, and specialists in Oregon.

?We support the work of NSTIC to go beyond using simple user IDs and passwords in an effort to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, trusted online credentials,? said Brian Ahier, President of Gorge Health Connect. ?Creating a fully functioning identity ecosystem within healthcare is a critical component for enabling health data exchange to scale to the national level.?

Source: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/09/21/resilient-wins-nationwide-online-identity-grant

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