CAQH®, a non-profit alliance of health plans and trade associations working to simplify healthcare administration, is joining with VeriSign, Inc. to conduct a pilot program demonstrating the secure authentication that is essential to the national agenda for health IT interoperability.
The six-month pilot will build upon the set of operating rules created by the CAQH Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE®). The CORE Phase II rules include the requirement to use digital certificates to access patient data. CORE will use the VeriSign® Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to create a prototype community that identifies best practices and tests data encryption operating rules to safely transmit patient administrative information between providers, payers and healthcare vendors.
Pilot findings will be assessed to develop industry operating rules on vendor-agnostic approaches to:
Conduct secure and authenticated transactions among payers, providers
and patients
Protect physician and patient identities
Maximize transaction privacy and security
Reduce the cost and complexity of secure data exchange
For more details check out www.verisign.com
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