*Participants*
Jack Buchanan, U. Tennessee - Memphis (Chair)
Paul Jolly, AAMC
Keith Hazelton, U. Wisconsin - Madison
Brent Putman, Georgetown University
Mike McGill, Internet2
George Brett, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Terrie Clark, Internet2

*Discussion*
Ongoing Pilot Projects - updates
The University of Wisconsin is going to be a Shibboleth origin for the online courseware pilot project with the University of Cincinnati. The University of Wisconsin team is installing the origin. The goal is to complete the installation in a month. Wisconsin's Public Health Information Network (PHIN) has expressed interest in this project for continuing medical education. The University of Wisconsin also desires to be a Shibboleth origin for the Tufts University Shibboleth project.

The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston (UTHSC-H), in conjunction with their participation in the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) "Extending the Reach" (ETR) program, is proceeding with Shibboleth-enabling a residency evaluation program. Baylor College of Medicine's attending physicians evaluate UT residents as a graduation requirement. Baylor will become a Shibboleth identity provider, thus enabling authentication against UTHSC-H’s three-tier web architecture. This is a Java application with an Oracle database backend. No credentials are issued directly by the system; it will be available this fall. The three possible methods for system authentication may be Shibboleth, LDAP or PKI.

Georgetown University's Project Sentinel Collaboratory update - University Information Services plans to set up an identity provider site. The hardware has been ordered. Installation and testing should begin soon after the hardware arrives. The University Information Services identity provider site is separate from the Georgetown University identity provider directory. For more information please see http://biodefense.georgetown.edu/project-sentinel.asp. Currently, efforts are underway to implement Shibboleth within the MonitorMan application of Azyxxi, which is the clinical data repository in use among the participating institutions.

There will be a BoF at the Internet2 Fall member Meeting in Austin, TX September 27-30. For more information please see http://events.internet2.edu/2004/fall-mm/. The BoF will focus on recent developments in public health and medical IT. For example, the recent federal healthcare IT initiative and the ways in which our work can support these efforts and the results and implications for the MedMid workgroup in the near term.

The group discussed the federal government’s use of HL7 in standardizing health care records as a potential BoF topic. The National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) may have a more detailed announcement about the use of the HL7 standard soon. The group decided to discuss Federated Identify Management and the technical approaches to this problem at the BoF.

The next call will be September 9, 2004 at 2:00PM EDT.