eHealth

Digital identity in e-health is of special interest to Lockstep. Security and privacy need not be traded off against one another. The spectre of national ID can be nullified if user-centric privacy enhancing technologies are implemented around patient identifiers.

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A Digital ‘Yellow Card’ Using Community PKI

My presentation on minimalist digitization of proof of vaccination, using PKI as a public interest technology, to the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, November 2020, 

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Anonymity & Pseudonymity in e.g. clinical trials

A peer reviewed poster paper presented at the eResearch 2009 Conference in Manly (Sydney) November 2009, and updated to depict the same verifiable credentials technology implemented in mobile phones.

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Presentation, Managing Patient Confidentiality & Information Governance Conference, June 2012, Melbourne

“The Emerging Role of Smart Technologies to Safeguard the e-health Patient Journey”

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Babystep 12: Electronic Medic Alert

An innovative way to create verifiable credentials holding personal emergency medical information – such as allergies and contraindications – in smartcards, including strong authentication of the healthcare professionals originating the alerts (i.e. provenance).

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Babystep 7: Smartcards and Prescription Shopping

Smartcards can address Prescription Shopping, detecting this form of fraud at source, without compromising the privacy of innocent patients.

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Babystep 6: Smartcards and Provider Fraud

Smartcards can detect fraudulent claiming by corrupt providers for services not actually delivered, or the counterfeiting of claims by administrative clerical staff.

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Patient Privacy and Security – Not a zero sum game!

A look at the tension between privacy and public health interests in electronic health record security, with a proposal to move safely to opt-out participation using smartcards to mask individual identifiers.

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A novel application of PKI smartcards to anonymise Health Identifiers

Paper presented to AusCERT Academic Refereed Paper Stream May 2005

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PKI State of Play

A presentation to the Argus Foundation Forum in 2004, outlining steady improvements to health PKI, and showing how local small scale trust schemes like PGP can be supported in parallel.

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PKI without tears

A critical analysis of orthodox PKI, including a detailed outline of how a health PKI could be implemented

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Copy of the PCEHR Privacy Impact Assessment

This document was made publicly available in 2011.

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