Consent management in medical research with FHIR
summary
Germany’s FHIR consent work defines reusable artifacts and a runnable flow: a versioned template frame assembles modules into a questionnaire, QuestionnaireResponse drives generation of a machine-processable Consent resource, signatures map to Provenance and paper scans to DocumentReference. The project publishes 10 FHIR profiles, 9 extensions, 3 value sets and 2 code systems, a balloted implementation guide (Sept 2021) and an open-source content management Geeks implementation; profiles strip demographics for privacy and are already used in MII pilots.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:05Speakers and background
- 3:14What is consent management
- 5:26FHIR in consent templates
- 7:52Patient resource in consent
- 8:56Implementation guide and MI initiative
- 11:45International collaboration questions
- 13:52Q&A session begins
- 16:21Policy catalog and counterparty questions
- 20:38Authentication and consent overlap
- 21:21Closing remarks








