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Industry Segment Status v The year of healthcare breaches (2015) v Little adoption of smart cards v Increase in fraud v Username and password portals are acceptable v Value based healthcare v Focus on patient safety v No identity management standards for Healthcare v Challenges with Medicare and Medicaid 2 Smart Card Alliance – Health and Human Services Council – October 2015

Requirements and Challenges Requirements v. No common identification standard Challenges v. Managing access to an individuals data v. Who will pay for strong authentication? v. Healthcare must go mobile v. Public and private healthcare systems v. Multiple organizations developing recommendations 3 Smart Card Alliance – Health and Human Services Council - October 2015

Industry Issues v v v v Healthcare has an identity management problem Security vs. Privacy No common standards Internal organizational impediments to change Outdated and ineffective IT infrastructure Fragmented System Medicare and Medicaid fraud reduction are not priorities “Physicians are already using computers and other high-tech devices and the use of these devices is improving health care. ” – Fortune (02/26/2015) 4 Smart Card Alliance – Health and Human Services Council – October 2015

Advancement of Smart Card Technology Accomplishments v. September 2015 – Released two press releases promoting council projects v. Presenting at Conferences v. Building relationships with other organizations v. Educating our committee members Future Projects v. Project on Healthcare Standards v. Monitoring industry opportunities v. Webinar Series v. Complete a project with another council “Smart cards could provide substantially more rigorous authentication than cards with magnetic stripes or bar codes, and provide greater security and storage capacity for exchanging medical information. ” – 2015 GAO Report 5 Smart Card Alliance – Health and Human Services Council – October 2015

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