http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-standards/cerf-has-the-question-cloud-has-the-answer/ The Power of People. Connected. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:58:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cloudinc.org/cloud-standards/cerf-has-the-question-cloud-has-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Digital Debacle for EHRs in Britain: The Challenge of Using 19th Century Thinking to Solve 21st Century Problems « CLOUD: Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, Inc. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:42:17 +0000 http://www.cloudinc.org/?p=194#comment-50 [...] Approaches, like OpenID, regretfully, are only a part of the solution to this EHR ownership issue. By facilitating “logging in” to web pages and making it  possible to more quickly take all of my information and put it into yet another web and data silo, they don’t change the privacy problem.  They accelerate it.  Their home page states this very clearly, “Log into 50,000 websites with a single username.” Even the OpenID Foundation accepts the world of web sites as a given: “OpenID is a safe, faster and easier way to log into websites.”  OpenID’s challenge is that it accepts the browser and web paradigm of the past 15 years and does not go to the heart of the Internet that was ushered in by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn 40 years ago. [...] [...] Approaches, like OpenID, regretfully, are only a part of the solution to this EHR ownership issue. By facilitating “logging in” to web pages and making it  possible to more quickly take all of my information and put it into yet another web and data silo, they don’t change the privacy problem.  They accelerate it.  Their home page states this very clearly, “Log into 50,000 websites with a single username.” Even the OpenID Foundation accepts the world of web sites as a given: “OpenID is a safe, faster and easier way to log into websites.”  OpenID’s challenge is that it accepts the browser and web paradigm of the past 15 years and does not go to the heart of the Internet that was ushered in by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn 40 years ago. [...]

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