Privacy Consent on FHIR (PCF)
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Privacy Consent on FHIR (PCF), published by IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.1.1-current built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IHE/ITI.PCF/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Example Consent: Consent allowing data access for a given intermediate purpose

Generated Narrative: Consent ex-consent-intermediate-purpose

status: Active

scope: Privacy Consent

category: Consent

patient: Jack Smith Male, DoB: 1923-07-25

dateTime: 2022-06-13

performer: Jack Smith Male, DoB: 1923-07-25

organization: Organization somewhere org

source: DocumentReference: status = current; type = Release of information consent; description = The captured signed document

Policies

-Uri
*https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/PCF/Policy-basic-normal

provision

type: Opt In

Actors

-RoleReference
*information recipientOrganization research house org

purpose: purposeOfUse FooBar: FooBar

Notes:

IUA Access Token

Provided an ITI-71 results in a PERMIT access token issued. That token would have the following residual element to inform the Consent Enforcement Point that it needs to restrict the results.

In this case there is no residual, as the Consent expresses that authorization be given only to a given Research organization for a given purpose of use. Possibly with scope restrictions based on other business rules, such as a subset of actions (CRUDE) and resources. No token would be issued by ITI-71 for users not a part of the Research organization, or requests by that organization that are not purpose FooBar.

  • The restriction to the given purpose (FooBar) would be expressed in the ihe_iua extension
    • The other ihe_iua extension parameters are not shown below
  • The consent is indicated in the ihe_pcf
    • no residual element is provided, indicating that no residual rules need be enforced
"extensions" : {
  "ihe_iua" : {
    ...
    "purpose_of_use" : [{
        "system" : "http://example.org/policies/purposeOfUse",
        "code" : "FooBar"
    }]
  }
  "ihe_pcf" : {
    "patient_id" : "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/ex-patient",
    "doc_id" : ["http://example.org/fhir/Consent/ex-consent-intermediate-purpose"]
  }
}