em> "Documentation of a Patient's Privacy Consent Directive - rules for Collection, Use, and Disclosure of their health data."

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<em>Approach:</em> FHIR provides a Consent resource suitable for
use by FHIR clients and servers to record current Privacy Consent state. The meaning of a consent or the absence of the consent is a local policy concern.
The Privacy Consent may be a pointer to privacy rules documented elsewhere, such as a policy identifier or identifier in XACML.
The Privacy Consent has t