Healthcare OpenID

Full Title

The OpenID Foundation has a working group, HEART, which is creating specifications for the use of OpenID and related specifications within the US Healthcare ecosystem.

Context

The following Implementer’s Drafts of Four HEART Specifications have been approved as of March 12, 2019. The four specifications that were approved are:

• [ http://openid.net/specs/openid-heart-oauth2-1_0.htmlHealth Relationship Trust Profile for OAuth 2.0]
• Health Relationship Trust Profile for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) OAuth 2.0 Scopes
• Health Relationship Trust Profile for User-Managed Access 2.0 Health Relationship Trust Profile for User-Managed Access 2.0
• Health Relationship Trust Profile for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) UMA 2 Resources

A complete list of HEART specifications produced (including previous Implementer’s Drafts) can be found in the group’s BitBucket repository.

Problems

• The documents are written in the language of OpenID rather than in the terms of the US Healthcare ecosystem.

Solutions

• Bring up a GitHub repository and deprecate the bitbucket repository.