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California data exchange stakeholders refine identity-management problem, debate centralized IDs vs. federated search
Summary
Stakeholders in California's data-exchange (DXF) series refined a problem statement and debated two core approaches to identity management: a centralized authoritative identifier layer versus a federated search plus duplicate-reporting workflow, while flagging equity and workflow concerns for people without official IDs.
Rym Cothren, the meeting facilitator, opened the final session in a state identity-management series and said the goal was to refine the problem statement and identify characteristics of a solution rather than design a final technical architecture. "We are not gonna end today's meeting with a full blown technical architecture for identity management statewide," she said, framing the discussion around practical tradeoffs the group must resolve.
The central issue identified by participants was that person-matching across health care, social services and public health systems is "unreliable and inaccurate," producing duplicates and gaps in service. Meeting participants coalesced around two high-level solution components: (1) facilitating access to authoritative sources of identifiers (for example, DMV records or Medi-Cal benefit numbers) and (2) a feedback mechanism to report and resolve suspected duplicate identities so mismatches are not propagated.
Speakers divided on whether DXF (the data…
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