Description
The HL7 v3 confidentiality code vocabulary is a “structured code set” designed to restrict access to healthcare information. The confidentiality codes can be used to associate consent directive rules relating to privilege and access permission rights with document, message, record, and data element level metadata. The application of the codes enables organizations within a HIE to establish a uniform vocabulary that can be referenced to restrict information access by context, role, rule, permission, purpose, information type and patient type through a structure terminology that can be convey through consent directive rules at a granular level for various types of artifacts. The confidentiality vocabulary is leveraged to declare cross-domain policies that apply special access requirements and requires the vocabulary to manage and enforce relative validation of access requirements for data marked with specific sensitivity attributes. Confidentiality codes can be applied in various situations to protect information by:
