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. 2020 Jan 15;20(2):483. doi: 10.3390/s20020483

Table 3.

Key players’ roles and tasks.

Key Players User Roles Role Definition
Healthcare regulators Issuer Regulators can create claims about the authorized clinics, hospitals, and care providers.
Inspector Regulators can verify the care providers’ certificates and patients’ assurance validity.
Holder Regulators can control and hold different claim about the other key players.
Industry representatives Issuer They can create claims about their own products and services to care providers or consumers.
Inspector They can verify claims coming from healthcare providers and consumers about particular products.
Holder They can control and hold claims about operations and product selling records.
Healthcare providers Issuer Care providers can create claims about healthcare consumers and it can be stored as healthcare records.
Inspector Care providers can inspect and verify claims of their own patients and industry representative.
Holder Care providers can control and hold claims like working certificate.
Healthcare consumers Issuer Consumers can create claims about their own health condition using devices and gadgets.
Inspector Consumers can verify claims coming from care provider for example in a case of telemedicine and remote care.
Holder Consumers can control and hold claims such as medical records.

The subject role is not presented in the table as we consider the holder is the subject. There are few use cases where the subject can be different from the holder, for example a kid can be the subject of the claim but the holder of the claim should be his parents. A holder is typically the controller of the claims.