who needs a healthcare federation?
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Who needs a Healthcare Federation?
Phil Leahy
Service Relationship Manager
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Access management in the UK and beyond
• A mixed economy
• IP authentication
• Publisher username/password
• Referral URL
• Form post
• Parameterised login
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Access management in the UK and beyond
• A mixed economy
• OpenAthens
• SAML/Shibboleth
• …
• Some publishers support ~15 different access
methods
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Federations – how do they work?
• Similar group; with a common goal
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Federations – how do they work?
• Similar group with common goal
• Set of rules
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Federations – how do they work?
• Common goal
• Set of rules
• Provide access
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Federations – how do they work?
• Common goal
• Set of rules
• Provide access
• Add value
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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
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Why do we need federations?
• Simplify access
• Ease management
• Provide a framework and drive economies of scale
• Power to the ‘Community’ !
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Who can be a federation?
• A single entity
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Who can be a federation?
Courtesy Creative Commons Flickr : Shlomi Fish, Marc_Smith, jjorogen
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Who can be a federation?
• Sector or market driven
• Bounded by territories.
Courtesy of http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/national_federations.pdf
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BUT NOT ALWAYS
Who can be a federation?
Courtesy of http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/national_federations.pdf
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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
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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
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Users/
librariesIdentity
Providers
Service
Providers
OpenAthens
SAML
Shibboleth
OpenID
OAuth
OpenAthens
Federation
IP authentication
Publisher username/password
Referral URL
Form post
Parameterised login
etc…
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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
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Publishers in the OpenAthens Federation
• Elsevier (ScienceDirect and Scopus)
• Oxford University Press
• Taylor and Francis
• Informa
• Thomson Reuters (Web of Knowledge)
• ProQuest
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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.
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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
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Set of rules
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Thank you
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