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Challenges/Solutions (continued)
- Challenge: Obtaining and Managing Patient Consent
- Broad variation in the requirements for obtaining and managing patient consent and authorization for information disclosures
- Solution: 8 states are working on reducing variation related to consent management
- Standardize patient consent process
- Harmonize consent language that addresses opt-in/opt-out issues across the state
- Implement consent management process; develop use cases that drive HIE transactions
- Create guiding principles for consent that can be used to update state law
- Model consent forms
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