State Issued ID for Healthcare
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Full Title
Use case for a state ID that follows the mobile driver's license as identity proofing credential in healthcare service (aka Medicaid).
Prepared by
Kantara Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group
Context
- This use case roughly follows the Commonwealth of Virginia example of the DMV running state issued identifiers for services. This scenario is one (or two) of them.
- Most states now use a Healthcare specific identification card (eg the Washington State Apple Card). This use case looks forward to the case where the state has combined all identification cards into a single system.
- It is possible that the state will determine that a single card that services all purposes would be indistinguishable on the web from a mobile driver's license.
Goal
To enable the enrollment of a remote patient with a healthcare identifier that qualifies the holder for state health services.
Actors
- Actor: Patient
- Actor: Proxy is used here to mean any person that can help the patient get registered. It could be a patient, spouse, nursing home personnel, public health professional or similar.
- Actor: Healthcare intake personnel and potentially the physician for creating followup actions by the patient.
Preconditions
- The patient is in need of healthcare using as cell phone and is not currently enrolled for state services with a state issued identification card.
- The patient has access to a mobile device that can authenticate the user and communicate to the physician or pratice.
- Alternate use case, the patient only has a mobile phone that cannot accommodate user installed apps.
Scenarios
Primary Scenario:
- Patient receives notice of appointment and instructions for online registration, or in person if she wants to risk it.
- Patient has a mobile driver's license (MDL) and doesn't want to travel to the doctor's office, which is why she chose telemedicine in the first place.
- Patient has an insurance card that is machine readable.
- Patient has a mobile wallet that holds the MDL and can take a picture of the insurance card.
- Patient navigates to the telemedicine web site which can send a message to her wallet to provide the mdl and insurance card as an image.
- Her wallet understands that an image of some sort is required and helps with the image capture.
- The data required from the MDL, the image capture and potential other data is presented to the user as a consent screen.
- The patient chooses to send the data to the telemedicine web site.
- The visit with the physician can start immediately, or when the physician becomes available.
Bonus capability.
- The patient is asked for prior health history and is able to navigate to her PCP and get a QR code that can be included in the message to the telemedicine site which can get the history data.
- The patient has a wallet that can authenticate the user's presence and allows the user to enter their existing driver's card as a machine readable image.
Secondary Scenario:
- Patient schedules a lab visit after the telemedicine session is completed.
Tertiary Scenario:
- The patient's grandchild acts on her behalf as an access proxy.
Problems
- The patient is one of the 19% of the population w/o a smart phone. Perhaps her grandchild can help with that.
- Getting the wallet into the patients smart phone or lap top may prove to be challenging.
- The patient is not comfortable with technology.
Open Questions
- Who determines what data from the MDL is sent to the EHR? (eg. the healthcare community specs or explicit user consent)?
- Is the driver's license ID number included in any way?
- Is a picture required in all cases.
- Is fraud a part of the working group's remit.
Outcome
- The patient is correctly matched to their electronic health record.
- The patient has a successful telemedicine experience, receives a set of reports, is schedules for a lab test and immunization at the local pharmacy.
- Follow up procedures are created and sent to her smartphone and give her notices when she must take medicine or other procedures.
References
- Mobile Driver's License on this wiki.