{"type":"data","nodes":[{"type":"data","data":[{"mainNavPagesCollection":1,"subnavPagesCollection":26},{"currentSlug":2,"topLevelSlug":-1,"total":3,"items":4},"surviving-the-equifax-experience",6,[5,8,11,14,17,20,23],{"title":6,"slug":7},"Home","",{"title":9,"slug":10},"About GPII","about-gpii",{"title":12,"slug":13},"Why the Need?","why-the-need",{"title":15,"slug":16},"Our Services ","our-services",{"title":18,"slug":19},"Privacy Protection","privacy-protection",{"title":21,"slug":22},"Contact Us","contact-us",{"title":24,"slug":25},"Articles","articles",{"currentSlug":2,"total":27,"items":28},0,[]],"uses":{"params":["slug"]}},{"type":"data","data":[{"title":1,"sanitizedBodyMarkup":2,"published":3,"author":4,"category":7,"tagsCollection":10,"pdf":18,"link":20}," Surviving the Equifax Experience ","\u003Cp>Like many of you, we have been transfixed as not one but two enormous hurricanes have\nbrought death and destruction to entire states. Our hearts go out to all those who have been\naffected. But, people are resilient and recover from a hurricane. Roads will be cleared, power\nwill be restored, debris will be collected, and structures will be rebuilt.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Last Friday, another category 5 event occurred that may take us much longer to recover from.\nEquifax, one of the three large United States credit monitoring companies, announced that it\nhad been hacked and that personal information of 143 million Americans has been\ncompromised. What makes the Equifax situation doubly ominous is that there is no clear path\nto restore the identity integrity of the affected individuals. People will be given credit\nmonitoring, some will receive new credit cards, many will monitor their finances with renewed\ncare. But there is no mechanism in place to restore the integrity of the millions of identities\naffected by this breach.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This is an unacceptable situation. At Global Patient Identifiers Inc. (GPII) we believe that the\nway we manage identities in US Healthcare must change. New capabilities that provide the\nability to fully restore an individual’s identity integrity must be implemented. This is not\npossible using the existing demographic data approach to identity management alone. A\nradically more capable technology with robust error recovery must be added.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>GPII has over a decade of experience creating a solution to this problem specifically for\nhealthcare. What is required is a properly designed unique identifier that can be managed by\neach individual person; an identifier that addresses complex issues like data breaches and\npatient privacy.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>How does the GPII approach to this problem differ from others:\u003C/p>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>The solution operates with no personally identifiable information.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>In the event of a data breach, the solution can completely restore an individual’s\nidentity integrity going forward in the same way the financial industry does today with a\ncompromised credit card.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>Patients can use the solution to manage the privacy of their information according to\ntheir unique needs.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>The solution can be added to a healthcare organization’s IT environment with little or no\nchange to existing systems.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>The solution is at least an order of magnitude less expensive than other approaches.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>The solution can benefit from evolving technologies such as biometrics and mobile\ndevices to provide more options for the patient and the provider.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp>GPII is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to solving this problem in a manner\nacceptable to all healthcare constituents.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003C/ul>\u003Cp>We welcome critical analysis aimed at exploring whether this solution could lead to a\nqualitative improvement in identity management across United States healthcare. Data\nbreaches will continue. We must be able to respond more effectively\u003C/p>","2017-09-14T00:00:00.000Z",{"firstName":5,"lastName":6},"Barry","Hieb",{"slug":8,"title":9},"industry-news","Industry News",{"total":11,"items":12},2,[13,15],{"slug":14,"title":14},"privacy",{"slug":16,"title":17},"data-breach","data breach",{"title":19,"url":19},"",{"title":19,"url":19}],"uses":{"params":["slug"]}}]}