Automated Patient Consent and Reduced Information Leakage Using Patient Consent Directives

摘要

A method and system for controlling the release of health information about an individual. The location of a patient consent repository is encoded into released electronic health information so that subsequent requests for the release of the individual's health released information can access the patient consent repository.

主权项

1. A system for controlling the release of health information, comprising:
a first requestor running on one or more processors operable to:
send, to a document custodian, a first request for information about an individual;receive, from the document custodian, first-released information about the individual, wherein the first-released information comprises an encoded location of a consent repository;receive, from a second requestor, a second request for information about the individual.determine a release decision specific to the second request, wherein the decision is based, in part, on consent information retrieved from a consent repository at the consent repository location encoded in the first-released information; andsend, to the second requestor, second-releasable information about the individual.