Verifiable Health Link
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Requirements: Generate a VHL Authorization Mechanism Based on Query Parameters (Experimental)

Official URL: https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/VHL/Requirements/GenerateVHL Version: 0.0.2-current
Active as of 2025-09-19 Computable Name: GenerateVHL

The VHL Sharer SHALL generate a Verified Health Link (VHL) to be issued to a VHL Holder.

The Sharer SHALL conduct all necessary tasks to prepare the content referenced by the VHL. These tasks MAY be further defined by applicable content profiles or implementation guides, and MAY include:

  • Generation of new documents;
  • Querying for existing documents associated with the VHL Holder; or
  • Creation of digital signatures on one or more documents.

Once content preparation is complete, the Sharer SHALL construct the VHL payload and sign it to produce a cryptographically verifiable authorization mechanism.

Optional behaviors:

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Statements Steps in the requirement:
  1. SHALL - Collect Content :

    Collect any pre-existing content and/or generate any necessary content that will be referenced as part of the VHL.

  2. SHALL - Generate VHL Payload :

    Generate the payload for the VHL in accordance with the applicable content profile.

  3. SHALL - Sign VHL :

    Sign the VHL payload to produce a verifiable and cryptographically bound artifact.
Derived from This requirement is not derived from another requriement.
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