Scalable Consent Management, published by HL7 International / Community Based Collaborative Care. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-consent-management/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Reading this IG

Background

The need for this guide emerged from an initial FAST discovery project to evaluate and identify gaps in the existing consent-related specifications and guidelines, as outlined in the Consent at Scale Report. This report defines the impetus and scope of the current implementation guide.

Underlying Technologies

This guide is based on the HL7 FHIR standard. Implementers of this specification therefore need to understand the basics of these specifications.

This implementation guide is based on the R4 version of the FHIR standard.

FHIR

This implementation guide uses terminology, notations and design principles that are specific to FHIR. Before reading this implementation guide, it's important to be familiar with some of the basic principles of FHIR, as well as general guidance on how to read FHIR specifications. Readers who are unfamiliar with FHIR are encouraged to read (or at least skim) the following prior to reading the rest of this implementation guide.

• FHIR Overview
• Developer's Introduction (or Clinical Introduction)
• FHIR Data Types
• Using Codes
• References between Resources
• How to Read Resource & Profile Definitions and additional IG reading guidance
• Base Resource

This implementation guide also builds on the US Core Implementation Guide and implementers need to familiarize themselves with the profiles in that IG.

This implementation guide uses Subscriptions that are based on the Subscriptions R5 Backport framework.

Implementers should also familiarize themselves with the FHIR resources used within the guide: