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Electronic Signature Project at VHA
Presentation by Mike Davis, Enterprise Security Architect at the VHA, on electronic signatures with an extended discussion of a pilot project at the VHA to electronically collect and maintain patient consent documents. download zipped powerpoint.

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DEA Publishes Interim Final Rule for Electronic Prescription for Contolled Substances.

DEA has updated 21 CFR Parts 1300, 1304, 1306, 1311 to establish the requirements under which DEA registrants may electronically prescribe controlled substances.  The new Rule backs away from the PKI mandate promoted in the draft, eliminates any dependency on intermediaries for security or storage.  Under the Interim Final Rule (IFR) institutions are permitted to incorporate the required identity proofing into their existing staff credentially process.  They must issue 2-factor authentication credentials for the prescription signing where the second factor is either a biometric or a hard token.  Alternatively prescribers may obtain a digital certificate from any CA that is cross certified with the Federal Bridge CA.    For more information

Tunitas Group and VHA Team Up to Promote Electronic Signatures at 2005 HealthSec Conference. Ann Geyer, Consultant,Tunitas Group and Mike Davis, Enterprise Security Architect at Veteran's Health Administration are presenting their work on implementing electronic signatures at HealthSec conference on Sept 29 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. Both presenters have indepth experience implementing e-signatures and will discuss their insights with attendees. The presentation lays out the key facts that all healthcare security officers should know to help their organization migrate to e-signatures in a risk controlled manner. Download ppt

Electronic Signature Tutorial -- May 2004. Presentation materials from a TEPR 2004 tutorial offerred by the Tunitas Group. Tutorial covers legal and regulatory apsects of esig use, risks associated in esig use, commonly available signature technologies, business case planning. The material includes several case studies, one which describes the jeopardy that one hosptal is now encountering as a result of a poor electronic signature implementation. download zipped powerpoint.

Tunitas Group and AR (Algorithmic Research) Offer Digital Signature Webinar -- January 2003. This webinar describes a new private key distribution model for digital signature that is much simpler and easier to manage than traditional PKI. Digital signatures are managed as a network resource. Access to the private key and invocation for signature is controlled via normal network authentication and security management. The webinar has concluded, but presentation materials are still available. Request copy of presentations

Electronic Signature Workshop -- May 2002. This workshop describes the legal and regulatory framework for relying upon electronic signatures for healthcare purposes. The workshop has concluded, but presentation materials are still available. download zipped powerpoint

The HIPAA Electronic Signature Rule -- a Tunitas Group White Paper
HHS has yet to release required standards for the "electronic transmission and authentication of signatures with respect to the [HIPAA] transctions". Per public comments of HHS personnel, the electronic signature reccomendations included in the August 1998 'Security NPRM' have been withdrawn pending further study and analysis. In this white paper, Tunitas Group makes specific recommendations for HIPAA electronic signature standards to support healthcare reimbursement. The paper presents an analysis of the signature requirements stemming from the proposed Claim Attachment standard. download zipped word document

Electronic Signatures for Medical Records -- February 2002
Tunitas Group presentation at RSA Conference 2002. The presentation describes industry events creating new interest in electronic signature and derives a number of signature and signer attributes that could be implemented in PKCS7 or XML-DSIG signatures. download zipped powerpoint

Introduction to Electronic Signature and PKI -- May 2001. Presentations from Tunitas Group Conference on Electronic Signature by Jan Lovorn, Protegrity. PKI permits signer authentication by use of digital signature. This presentation introduces the ASTM PKCS#7 based standards for digital signatures for healthcare purposes, and explores future directions provided by the IETF, W3C and HL7. download zipped powerpoint.

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