Which standard did Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) pioneer around 2006 to 2008 for capturing high-level privacy preferences?
Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC)
The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative is credited with pioneering the Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC) standard between approximately 2006 and 2008. This standard represented an early, systematic attempt within the healthcare sector to translate complex patient privacy preferences regarding data exchange into a computable, digital format. It was designed specifically to capture high-level choices that could be understood across different organizational boundaries and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This foundational work preceded the development of more granular standards, focusing initially on establishing a baseline digital representation of consent that mirrored the seriousness of traditional informed consent.
