Patient Choice

Full Title

The options that a patient has in accessing and sharing their Protected Health Information (PHI) with trusted medical providers.

Context

• This pattern is a sub-set of the User Choice Pattern which covers the general user choice issues. It contains the general context and should be read in conjunction with this page.

Problems

• Patients have all expressed a desire to control what and where they share their Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Patients also ask to have control of the applications that run on their smart phones.
• If the patient chooses an application for their smart phone that downloads PHI, then that application has complete control over where that data goes.

I If the healthcare community decides to allow any smart phone application that the patient chooses to install on the smart phone, then the patient is at risk to loose control of their PHI.

References

Other Material

The following use cases contain details about Patient Choice in a Trustworthy Healthcare Ecosystem.

• Remote Attestation Use Case describes a user with a Smart Phone going though a series of actions that will provide subsequent statements from that user on that phone with a higher level of assurance.
• User Agent in the Clouddescribes a user with a modern browser on a internet connected computing device establishing an agent on a trustworthy web site to allow access to information on their behalf.