What was the primary objective differentiating the Advanced Patient Privacy Consents (APPC) standard from the earlier BPPC standard?
Achieving finer-grained control, allowing policies for partial data sharing
The Advanced Patient Privacy Consents (APPC) standard, developed in the early-to-mid 2010s, represented an evolution beyond the foundational Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC) standard. While BPPC focused on capturing high-level, systematic preferences across organizations, APPC aimed for significantly greater detail and precision. Its central goal was to introduce finer-grained control, enabling policies that allowed for partial data sharing. This focus on granularity—defining precisely *what* data could be shared and *with whom*—was a level of detail often absent or poorly handled in consumer-facing digital systems, reflecting the strict requirements inherent in medical data exchange.
