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General Information

Informed Consent 

The existence of an active ‘informed patient consent’ is one of the fundamental prerequisites for the healthcare providers to access patient’s medical data. Therefore, the eHealth platform makes available to the concerned patients and the health care actors involved in the exchange,

storage or referencing personal data a service to manage the ‘informed patient consent’ as defined by the deliberation 12/047 of the CSSSS/SCSZG1.

Technically, we identify the following attributes for an ‘informed patient consent’:

  • The SSIN of the patient.
  • The date of the consent registration (at the end-user side).
  • The “type” of the consent If the consent is only valuable for data posterior to the signing date, it is called ‘prospective’ and ‘retrospective’ in the other case . According to the rules defined now, the only possible value for this attribute is ‘retrospective’. The attribute is present for backwards compatibility.
  • The identity of the HCParty acting in the patient’s name (if applicable).

The “informed consent” can be managed and verified throughout several ways and associated components. The above scheme provides an overview of all those components.
The “eHealth Consent WS” described here is only available for the software of the authorized healthcare professionals and institutions.



KMEHR

This service is a ‘KMEHR-based’ WS. We thus strongly recommend consulting the documentation related to the KMEHR normative elements. The KMEHR site aims to offer a central point for the documentation of the KMEHR normative elements.

https://www.ehealth.fgov.be/standards/kmehr/en

The three following generic elements are, in particular, essentials to build the request and the reply of eHealth MetaHub WS.


Basic Flow 


FlowSpecifications 


IDAR-UC07-BF
NamePut Patient Consent - Health Care professional of AR78
DescriptionA health care professional of AR78 (Physician - Dentist - Nurse - Midwife) declares an "Informed Patient Consent" on behalf of the patient by using the WS Consent. The personal eHealth Certificate of the health care giver is used to access to the WS Consent. 
Actor(s)
  • A health care giver of AR78 (Physician - Dentist - Nurse - Midwife)
Requirements
  • End-user is a health care professional AR78 (Physician - Dentist - Nurse - Pharmacist - Midwife)
  • End-user acts as author of the request through his software and manages himself
  • Valid personal eHeatlh Certificate 
  • Consent WS is integrated in the software of the end-user
  • Health care professional is not holder of the Global Medical File of the concerned patient
Trigger

The user wants to declare a Patient Consent on behalf of the patient

Precondition(s)
  • The user has an account for the application
  • The user is logged out
Flow
  1. The user attempts to access the eHealth Consent WS
  2. The user needs to request a SAML Token by using it's personal eHealth Certificate
  3. A request for a SAML Token is sent to the Secure Token Service (STS)
  4. The STS responds with a SAML Token
  5. The user has access to the eHealth WS Consent
  6. The user does a request for Put Patient Consent 
  7. The Put Patient Consent Request is sent to the WS Consent 
  8. ° The WS Consent responds with a Put Patient Consent Response

      ° The request is logged 

      ° The Informed Patient Consent is stored in eHealth Database

Post condition(s)
  • Request is logged
  • The informed patient consent is stored in the eHealth Database
Test Data 
Endpoint(s)
  • WS Consent
  • eHealth Database
Remarks
  • If support card number is provided then it must be compliant e.g. correct format, check-digit and combination
  • Support card number is not mandatory if the concerned patient is a new born (0 < patient < 3 months)
Additional Information

Additional information about the software and/or end-user e.g. first name and family name may be added for the audit purpose



Alternative Flow

FlowSpecifications


IDAR-UC07-AF02

Name

Put Patient Consent - Physician who is holder of the concerned patient Global Medical File 
DescriptionA physician who is holder of the concerned patient Global Medical file declares an "Informed Patient Consent" on behalf of the patient by using the WS Consent. The personal eHealth Certificate of the physician is used to access the Consent WS. 
Actor(s)Physician who is holder of the concerned patient Global Medical File 
Requirements
  • Physician is holder of the patient's Global Medical File 
  • End-user acts as author of the request through his software and manages himself
  • Valid personal eHeatlh Certificate 
  • Consent WS is integrated in the software of the end-user
Trigger

The user wants to declare a Patient Consent on behalf of the patient

Precondition(s)
  • The user has an account for the application
  • The user is logged out
Flow
  1. The user attempts to access the eHealth Consent WS
  2. The user needs to request a SAML Token by using it's personal eHealth Certificate
  3. A request for a SAML Token is sent to the Secure Token Service (STS)
  4. The STS responds with a SAML Token
  5. The user has access to the eHealth WS Consent
  6. The user does a request for Put Patient Consent 
  7. The Put Patient Consent Request is sent to the WS Consent 
  8. ° The WS Consent responds with a Put Patient Consent Response

      ° The request is logged 

      ° The Informed Patient Consent is stored in eHealth Database

Difference in flowPut Patient Consent - Consent : Patient SSIN support card NOT mandatory 
Post conditions
  • Request is logged
  • The informed patient consent is stored in the eHealth Database
Test DataExample Request AR78 - Physician
Endpoint(s)
  • WS Consent
  • eHealth Database
Remarks
  • If support card number is provided then it must be compliant e.g. correct format, check-digit and combination
  • Support card number is not mandatory if the concerned patient is a new born (0 < patient < 3 months)
Additional informationAdditional information about the software and/or physician e.g. first name and family name may be added for the audit purpose