OASIS and HITSP Collaborate on Interoperability Demo of Healthcare Privacy Standards at HIMSS09

Sun Microsystems, Jericho Systems, Red Hat, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs Collaborate to Implement Healthcare Scenarios

CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--
"Meeting Privacy Needs of the Nation Today" is the focus of a multi-vendor,
interoperability demonstration hosted by OASIS, the international open standards
consortium, in cooperation with the U.S. Healthcare Information Technology
Standards Panel (HITSP). The demo is part of the HIMSS (Healthcare Information
and Management Systems Society) 2009 conference Interoperability Showcase, which
is taking place in Chicago this week.

The demonstration implements privacy consents and access control standards
recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the secure
electronic exchange of health care information. These standards, including the
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and eXtensible Access Control Markup
Language (XACML), are described in HITSP`s TP-20/TP-30 constructs. The standards
are part of the Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA)
profile, which is currently being defined at OASIS.

"The advanced technologies demonstrated by OASIS and HITSP at HIMSS09 show how
standards and technologies that have been approved by the U.S. Secretary, Health
and Human Services can come together with vendors and providers to meet the
Nation's healthcare interoperability requirements for security and patient
privacy," said John 'Mike' Davis, Standards Security Architect, U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs.

The demo depicts real world, critical healthcare scenarios including
clinician-asserted rights, purpose-based access (e.g., emergency access),
patient-determined privacy preferences and consent directives, and flexible
policy management.

Support for XSPA

Sun Microsystems

"The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is the poster child for all of
the benefits that open source software and open standards provide," said Bill
Vass, president and COO of Sun Microsystems. "The federal government has built a
working prototype capable of being deployed across multiple agencies in a matter
of months with minimal costs. The open nature of the IT foundation is critical
to ensuring that government can work with the private healthcare sector to
revolutionize the nation's healthcare system."

Jericho Systems

"Jericho Systems is thrilled to be a primary contributor to the OASIS/ HITSP
Interoperability Demo providing the Healthcare Industry with a real world
solution to dynamic and secure collaboration. It allows us to expose and
demonstrate Jericho`s EnterSpace Decisioning Service, the first to market,
standards-based Authorization Service. What makes this opportunity even more
exciting is the implementation of Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy
Authorization (XSPA) profile, HITSP`s TP-20/TP-30 and HL7 which has application
to the Healthcare Industry, First Responders and Homeland Defense," said Brynn
Mow, CEO of Jericho Systems.

Red Hat

"As a leader in open source, we are committed to adoption of OASIS security
standards, and we support industry interoperability efforts surrounding them. We
are eager to showcase the applicability of standards and open source technology
to enable privacy and secure transmission in e-healthcare. The current
demonstration allows Red Hat and our partners to show the power of open source
and collaboration," said Anil Saldhana, Lead Security Architect, JBoss Division,
Red Hat Inc.

Additional information:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xspa/

About OASIS:

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the
global information society. A not-for-profit consortium, OASIS advances
standards for SOA, security, Web services, documents, e-commerce, government and
law, localisation, supply chains, XML processing, and other areas of need
identified by its members. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower
cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free
choice of technology. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants
representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
http://www.oasis-open.org

OASIS
Carol Geyer, OASIS Director of Communications, 978-667-5115 x209
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org

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