The US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology asked Forrester's Eve Maler to testify as part of a panel at a March 12, 2014, virtual public hearing on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) for the benefit of the Privacy and Security Workgroup of its Health IT Standards Committee. The panel topic: the relevance of identity management standards and NSTIC to health IT. In this report, you'll read her prepared oral remarks.