who needs a healthcare federation?
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Who needs a Healthcare Federation?
Phil Leahy
Service Relationship Manager
Access management in the UK and beyond
• A mixed economy
• IP authentication
• Publisher username/password
• Referral URL
• Form post
• Parameterised login
Access management in the UK and beyond
• A mixed economy
• OpenAthens
• SAML/Shibboleth
• …
• Some publishers support ~15 different access
methods
Federations – how do they work?
• Similar group; with a common goal
Federations – how do they work?
• Similar group with common goal
• Set of rules
Federations – how do they work?
• Common goal
• Set of rules
• Provide access
Federations – how do they work?
• Common goal
• Set of rules
• Provide access
• Add value
What’s the purpose of a federation?
• Participating organisations and/or a service provider
trust the information received from one another
• Seamless access to information
• Secure communication
• Sharing at the organisational and end user levels
Why do we need federations?
• Simplify access
• Ease management
• Provide a framework and drive economies of scale
• Power to the ‘Community’ !
Who can be a federation?
• A single entity
Who can be a federation?
Courtesy Creative Commons Flickr : Shlomi Fish, Marc_Smith, jjorogen
Who can be a federation?
• Sector or market driven
• Bounded by territories.
Courtesy of http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/national_federations.pdf
BUT NOT ALWAYS
Who can be a federation?
Courtesy of http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/national_federations.pdf
Who can be a federation?
Courtesy of http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/national_federations.pdf
CAFe
(Brazil)
US
(InCommon)
AAF
(Australia)
CARSI
(China)
Fédération
Éducation-
Recherche
(France)
Canadian
Access
Federation
(Canada)
FEIDE
(Norway)
SIR (Spain)IDEM (Italy) GakuNin
(Japan)
UK Access
Management
Federation for
Education and
ResearchOpenAthens
Federation
Eduserv’s Athens federation
1994 2000 2008 2009 2010 2011 Today…
• Athens developed & first web service launched
• Athens adopted by NHS England in the UK
• Athens became OpenAthens
• 33% of the Australian healthcare market adopts OpenAthens - SAH- DoH Victoria
• US Department of Veteran Affairs USA adopts OpenAthens
• US Navy Medicine Information Systems Support Agency adopts OpenAthens
• > 2,000 organizations use OpenAthens
• > 4 million users worldwide
• > 60 Healthcare customers alone
Users/
librariesIdentity
Providers
Service
Providers
OpenAthens
SAML
Shibboleth
OpenID
OAuth
OpenAthens
Federation
IP authentication
Publisher username/password
Referral URL
Form post
Parameterised login
etc…
Why can’t healthcare organisations join UKFed?
• They can, but the NHS is…
• a large, complex organisation
• subject to structural change
• therefore difficult to manage in the ‘classic’ federation
model
Publishers in the OpenAthens Federation
• Elsevier (ScienceDirect and Scopus)
• Oxford University Press
• Taylor and Francis
• Informa
• Thomson Reuters (Web of Knowledge)
• ProQuest
OpenAthens Healthcare Federation
• Comprised of both Identity Providers and
Service Providers
• Common licence/membership terms
• Inter-federation support/operability
• Multi-federation management interface
• Based on the OpenAthens service.
Similar groups
Common goal
Set of rules
Provide access
Add value
Add value.
In summary…
• OpenAthens users can now:
• access more than just OpenAthens-compliant
licensed resources
• access to SAML/Shibboleth-protected resources is
now a reality for non-academic organisations
Set of rules
Thank you
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