[2017-06-19] ToI: Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based ID network

[polynesia]

Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/accenture-microsoft-team-up-on-blockchain-based-digital-id-network/articleshow/59221785.cms

Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents.

The companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York during the second summit of ID2020, a public-private consortium promoting the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of providing legal identity for everyone on the planet.

The project aims to help individuals such as refugees prove who they are in order to gain access to basic services such as education and healthcare.

[CoralHealth]

This would be really significant for healthcare. Right now in the US every single entity has their own identifiers for a patient and this leads to an inability to track a patient across the different points of care and contributes to significant info gaps that we see today. I know a few US insurers are also looking into this digital ID to help them identify their own patients and match them up to their policy better.

[cryptomoon1002]

How would Accenture + Microsoft compete with several other blockchain based ID networks ? Ex. Civic