Implementing OpenID for Physicians

With the growing web presence of Payors, Physicians and Patient who cross multiple vendors there will be a greater need to maintain multiple user registrations amongst different entities. The idea is to create a single openID platform that centralizes the user credntials for physicians nationwide. This would rapidly increase the adoption of using different web tools from the physician community without having register with 10 different Payor websites in a market. The OpenID can follow the NPI standard and be maintained by a single preferable not for profit group that can be now share this with all other payors, providers and so on in a regional markets. As more web technologies develop for getting information, online claims and prescription processing, at least the login and credentialing for all these sites can be kept common. New developers would facilitate login by just adding an openID logon.

This would also provide seamless single sign without having to implement different protocols etc for single sign for Physicians. Similarly, this could be adapted for patients to use across multiple sites including Payor sites, manufacturer sites, disease management sites etc.