NZ Shared Digital Health Record API
1.0.0 - release

NZ Shared Digital Health Record API, published by Health New Zealand. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/tewhatuora/fhir-sdhr/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Consent based access control

Like any NZ organisation collecting/sharing patient health information, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand has to abide by the requirements of the NZ Health Information Privacy Code.

In support of this, the NZ Shared Digital Health Record API has implemented the following measures:

1. For all FHIR resource types that may contain patient health information, the FHIR API controls access to resource instances.

For the Shared Digital Health Record, if a health consumer elects NOT to participate this will be done by contacting the Health New Zealand assisted channel. The result of this action will be a `Consent` record created for this patient with a `provision.type` property set to `deny`

For clarity, in general, the `Consent` scope is not available to consuming application and should be considered an administrative function.