Table 1 The three central use cases of consent management
From: MAGIC: once upon a time in consent management—a FHIR® tale
No. | Consent use case | Description |
|---|---|---|
A | Definition | Consent definition describes the consent with regards to content, form, and layout (e.g. content modules, descriptive and legal texts, the order of modules, necessary answer options). It can be understood as a template for specific consent document instances |
B | Documentation and tracking | Consent documentation and tracking imply a digital system that documents and tracks the agreement of a specific patient to a clearly defined consent and/or withdrawal, i.e. who has consented when with regards to what and/or which part of the consent was if so, withdrawn |
C | Application | Consent Application and enforcement requires an additional technical understanding of the consent definitions. Its goal is to automatically apply a given consent or withdrawal (and respective rules), so that all relevant systems reflect the patient’s wishes, ideally without further manual intervention |