Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC)

Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC) IHE Vendors Workshop 2006 IHE Patient Care Coordination Education <Author(s)>

Basic Patient Privacy ConsentsAbstract • The Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC) profile provide mechanisms to: • Record the patient privacy consent(s), • Mark documents published to XDS with the patient privacy consent that was used to authorize the publication, • Enforce the privacy consent appropriate to the use.

Basic Patient Privacy ConsentsScope • Document Sources and Document Consumers in an XDS Affinity Domain • Document Sources and Document Receivers using Cross Enterprise Point-to-Point Document Sharing

Basic Patient Privacy ConsentsValue Proposition • an Affinity Domain can • develop privacy policies, • and implement them with role-based or other access control mechanisms supported by EHR systems. • A patient can • Be made aware of an institutions privacy policies. • Have an opportunity to selectively control access to their healthcare information.

Basic Patient Privacy ConsentsKey Technical Properties • Human Readable Consents • Machine Processable • Support for standard Role-Based Access Control Mechanisms

Basic Patient Privacy ConsentsStandards and Profiles Used • CDA Release 2.0 • XDS Scanned Documents • Document Digital Signature • Cross Enterprise Document Sharing • Cross Enterprise Point-to-Point Document Sharing

Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC)