Healthcare IT News January 27, 2025
The organization shines a light on technical and other challenges healthcare providers face when implementing patient privacy consent to comply with healthcare data exchange requirements in a new landscape paper.
The Sequoia Project’s Privacy and Consent Workgroup said it reviewed existing consent models and frameworks and other factors that may help providers achieve a state of “computable consent” – where computers exchange patient information or hold back portions based on selected privacy settings – in a whitepaper released Friday.
In it, the work group explores the strengths and deficiencies of healthcare data exchange frameworks, tools and approaches and also outlines policy and operational challenges.
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Sequoia Project, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognized coordinating...