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Granular consent management using FHIR consents

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Description

I would like to know how to do more granular consent management. "Patient x gives crud permission to Practitioner y" sort of permissions.

Examples:

- In the Google Healthcare API there is a [preview feature](https://cloud.google.com/healthcare-api/docs/fhir-consent) that allows this sort of Consent Management.
- https://smilecdr.com/docs/security/consent_service.html

The only issue that I have found is #1182, which refers to the [FHIR Proxy](https://github.com/microsoft/fhir-proxy). They used to describe a [Consent Opt-Out filter](https://github.com/microsoft/fhir-proxy?tab=readme-ov-file#consent-opt-out-filter) that did exactly this. But unfortunately the proxy has been deprecated since. What is currently the supported way of achieving this?

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Research direction

No repository file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reviewing issue #1182 and the current FHIR server documentation, then compare the requested Patient-to-Practitioner CRUD permissions with the referenced FHIR Consent approaches. Done would be identifying and documenting a supported implementation path, or clearly defining the missing feature.

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Assessment

Domain
authorization, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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