The following article describes the complexities of implementing the authorization behaviors for a multi-tenant healthcare platform based on the FHIR’s Consent resource in lay terms. It doesn’t intend to describe a full implementation. All references to FHIR are for version R4 unless specified. Authorization basics Authorization is a key concept among other important related to…

Managing clinical and imaging data is an enormous challenge within the medical industry. The complete lack of standardization has made true interoperability almost impossible, with numerous disparate datasets orphaned across hospitals, cities, states, and the globe. Marrying datasets can be challenging for a single hospital system, let alone an entire country. With organizations like the…