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Why a new prescription is needed for healthcare's chronic trust problem

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Maintainer: Jared Jeffery (CEO, healthKERI) · 2026-04-06 · checked 2026-10-14

An opinion article in Health Data Management arguing that legacy trust tools such as digital certificates and OAuth leave gaps in cross-organizational health data exchange. Using the post-2008 Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system as a precedent, it presents the verifiable LEI (vLEI), a credential built on KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure), as an alternative, and says groups including CARIN Alliance and DirectTrust are evaluating it.

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