CAMP Med: Identity and Access Management for Medical Applications

A key component of security is well-managed access to and protection of online resources and user privacy while enhancing ease of use. Managing user identity and related information not only reduces the staff required to manage appropriate access but also allows better service by facilitating the provisioning (automatic granting or revoking) of services and the flexible auditing of information access requests.

The upcoming CAMP Med: Identity and Access Management for Medical Applications Workshop offers information resource leaders and staff tasked with addressing identity and access management issues for academic medical centers a unique opportunity to come together with central campus IT staff to discuss areas of mutual interest.

The workshop is designed to offer an introduction to the tools available to support identity and access management for medical and health-related applications and to the technology issues faced by academic medical centers. Specific discussion sessions will allow both audiences to explore common requirements, needs, and deployment issues.

To maximize program value, event organizers recommend that each institution send leadership from both the academic medical centers and the central IT organization.

Workshop topics include:

• HIPAA requirements and their relationship to identity management infrastructures
• Available identity management tools
• Privilege and role-based access control of applications and information
• Auditability of electronic access and use
• Enabling virtual research and other collaborative organizations that span traditional boundaries
• Strategies for resource-strapped institutions

Sessions are tailored to technology management and integration architects supporting campuses medical schools, as well as those supporting central IT functions. The audience includes:

• CIOs, IT strategists, and related leadership from the medical schools
• Campus IT CIOs, management, and technology architects

CAMP is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) Consortium: EDUCAUSE, Internet2, and SURA, Additional support was provided by the National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement NSF-02-028, ANI-012937.

The program for CAMP Med: Identity and Access Management for Medical Applications Workshop is being developed in collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).