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Self-Sovereign Identity in Healthcare: ��Healthcare worker identity and the foundations of a new era of trusted relationships between individuals, organisations and clinical things. �

Dr Manreet Nijjar MB ChB MRCP (London)

Co-founder & CEO truu

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manreet@truu.id

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manreet nijjar

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  1. Empower global SSI communities
  2. Open to everyone interested in SSI
  3. All content is shared with CC BY SA

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Alex Preukschat @SSIMeetup @AlexPreukschat

Coordinating Node SSIMeetup.org

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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‘Self Sovereign Identity will be foundational to healthcare. It will provide the privacy, security, portability and scalability to facilitate levels of trust required to benefit all entities in the ecosystem.’

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  • Personal journey and a problem to solve
  • Examples of National and Global issues with Healthcare workforce
  • Decentralised identity solution for doctors
  • Where we are ?
  • SSI the foundations for future healthcare ecosystems & networks
  • Trust waterfalls, lakes and oceans
  • Q&A

Overview

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Early beginnings...

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Medical school and ID speciality

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2015..... The year the SSI journey began

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https://wondery.com/shows/dr-death/

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Promises

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http://chrisholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Distributed-Ledger-Technologies-for-Public-Good_leadership-collaboration-and-innovation.pdf

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/healthcare-by-2028-will-be-doctor-directed-patient-owned-and-powered-by-visual-technologies/

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Decentralised Identity for Doctors: What does it look like?

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Doctor’s Digital Wallet

Truu ID & Credential Hub

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The art of the possible

Screen shots of IMS Maxims EHR system courtesy of Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS foundation trust

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Screen shots of IMS Maxims EHR system courtesy of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation trust

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Completed Discovery and Proof of Concept with the NHS

Planned Pilot/Early implementation with 80-100 doctors.

Issued World’s first digital self sovereign identity for

Doctors from one NHS hospital to be verified by a second NHS hospital

UK’s first and founding Sovrin Steward.

PoC connecting healthcare workers in rural Bangladesh & UK to demonstrate trusted global healthcare worker network.

Partnering opportunities in Middle East, New Zealand, USA,

and Australia

Membership to Decentralised Identity Foundation

Where we are?

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Individuals

Organisations

Things

�Patients

Family members

Care givers

Doctors

Physicians

Surgeons

GPs

Nurses

Dentists

Physiotherapists

Occupation therapists

Associated health professionals -  clinical psychologist, chiropractors etc

Pharmacist

Social workers

Scientists/Researchers

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�Hospitals- Public and private

GP/ Family doctors clinic

Private practices

Regulatory and licensing authorities

eg GMC, State Medical Boards

Universities- Medical schools and Academic Research institutions

Post Graduate Certifying authorities eg Royal College of Physicians

Pharmacies

Insurers both of health and healthcare workers and organisations

Pharmaceutical organisations

Biotech companies

NGO & charities -Red cross MSF

Telehealth providers

Electronic Health record providers

Emerging tech platforms Big Data/ AI/Deep Learning

�Wearables  fitbit / apple watch etc

Medical devices   

Glucose monitors,

Pacemakers

Ventilators

IV fluid pumps

Cardiac monitors

CT/MRI scanner

Diagnostic platforms

          blood analysers                              

          whole genome sequencing

Drugs

Medical records

Medical prescriptions

Surgical equipment

Consent

Clinical trials

Robotic surgical systems

VR tools

The Ecosystem*

* Note: this is not complete inclusive list of all entities in the healthcare ecosystem

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GP /Family

Doctor

Procedures,

treatments

Specialist

Doctors

Drugs/ Medications

Hospitals

Family

Insurers

EHR/Medical

Records

Diagnostics

Wearables

Medical devices/

Equipment

Scientists/

Researchers

Pharmaceutical companies

Nurses

Academia/

Universities

Allied Health Professionals

Pharmacist

Pharmacy

Patients

Digital Self-sovereign identity will facilitate trusted peer-to-peer relationships between individuals, organisations and clinical IOT.

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Trust Waterfalls

Trust Lakes

Trust Oceans

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"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus." – Simon Mainwaring

"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." – Charles Darwin

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton

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www.IdentityBook.info / @IdentityBookHQ

�Decentralised Digital Identity in Healthcare: The foundations of a new era of trusted relationships between individuals, organisations and clinical things by Manreet Nijjar and Paul Knowles

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Self-Sovereign Identity in Healthcare: ��Healthcare worker identity and the foundations of a new era of trusted relationships between individuals, organisations and clinical things. �

Dr Manreet Nijjar MB ChB MRCP (London)

Co-founder & CEO truu

SSIMeetup.org February 2019

manreet@truu.id

@truu_id

manreet nijjar

www.truu.id

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