| The American Medical Association announced a collaborative partnership with Intel Corporation to develop a new form of electronic credential that will protect privacy and confidentiality when physicians and patients send and receive medical information via the Internet.
The electronic credentials, know as digital credentials, will uniquely identify individuals over the Internet. The digital credentials will be issued to physicians in early 2000, providing a more reliable authentication technique than passwords.
Physicians will be able to get laboratory results, write prescriptions, have their notes transcribed, and have claims processed by administrators with the assurance that the information is traveling through secure connections. |
