This panel of healthcare identity experts from public and private sector will debate some of the more problematic and thought-provoking identity challenges in our industry. Why does identity assurance and authentication seem to work better at banks and between financial institutions than at hospitals or between healthcare entities. Is the grass really greener on the other side and what can the healthcare sector learn from our identity colleagues in the financial sector? Person-to-Record & Record-to-Record matching – in healthcare this problem is addressed by collecting a common set of PII and using matching algorithms to find and create the links, do other industries do this? Why aren’t you in the room? Healthcare has an immediate need to solve for patient consumer identities spurred on by the federal TEFCA requirements and yet identity vendors and identity expertise are largely lacking