Consent
Introduction
Consent resource is normally used for expressing a Consent regarding Healthcare. Consent resource records healthcare consumer’s choices, which permits or denies identified recipient(s) or recipient role(s) to perform one or more actions within a given policy context, for specific purposes and periods of time. This profile is created based on Consent standard profile in FHIR.
Current Use cases for the Consent resource include:
- Record the consent of patients on fully sealing their accounts in My health app
- Record consent of a patient related to any other connection with healthcare providers
Intended Use
This profile is used to expose information that has a relevant policy or a policy rule for the consent given. The profiles derived can be used for exposing information such as denial or acceptance of a specific actions done related to healthcare. When using, a new profile can be created by limiting fields based on the requirement from the defined core profile.
Profile Hierarchy
The following points shows the hierarchy of the Consent profiles implemented. It also shows how they are derived from the Standard FHIR profiles. The links to the profiles derived can be found at the bottom.