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Building the Consent Trust Stack: How Computable Consent Can Scale Privacy, Patient Choice, and Healthcare Data Exchange

[fa icon="calendar"] Jul 31, 2026, 3:58:37 PM / by FAST Project Management Team

FAST August 13 webinar 2026

Free Webinar on August 13 at 11:30 am ET

As healthcare data exchange continues to expand, building trust has become just as important as building interoperability. Patients expect their privacy preferences to be respected, organizations need confidence that consent directives can be enforced consistently, and data must move securely across an increasingly connected healthcare ecosystem.

Join the HL7® FHIR® at Scale Taskforce (FAST), HL7 International, Shift Collaborative, and The Sequoia Project Privacy & Consent Workgroup on August 13 for Building the Consent Trust Stack: Scaling Privacy, Patient Choice, and Data Exchange Across Healthcare. This webinar introduces the FAST Scalable Consent Management Implementation Guide and explores how computable consent can transform patient choices into standards-based, actionable data exchange.

Why Computable Consent Matters

As healthcare organizations exchange more data across providers, payers, health information networks, public health agencies, and patients, consent management must evolve beyond paper forms and manual processes.

Traditional consent models often rely on static documents and organization-specific workflows that are difficult to interpret, share, and enforce across systems. Computable consent changes that by representing patient choices in a structured, machine-readable format that can be discovered, understood, and applied automatically wherever health information is exchanged.

The FAST Scalable Consent Management Implementation Guide provides a standards-based approach to making consent more interoperable, discoverable, enforceable, and scalable, which strengthens patient trust while supporting secure, policy-aware data exchange. 

What You'll Learn

During this webinar, experts from FAST, HL7, Shift Collaborative, and The Sequoia Project will explore how computable consent can support:

  • Granular patient preferences
  • Sensitive data protections
  • Consent discovery across systems
  • Delegation and authorized representatives
  • Revocation and lifecycle management
  • Auditability and transparency
  • Policy-aware data exchange across organizations and jurisdictions

Attendees will also learn how computable consent supports nationwide interoperability initiatives, including TEFCA and CMS Aligned Networks, while helping healthcare organizations build trusted, scalable approaches to privacy and patient choice.

Building the Foundation for Trusted Interoperability

As digital health continues to evolve, interoperability depends on more than the ability to exchange data; it depends on ensuring that data is shared in ways that respect patient preferences, comply with privacy requirements, and inspire confidence across the healthcare ecosystem.

The collaboration among HL7 FAST, HL7 International, Shift Collaborative, and The Sequoia Project represents an important step toward making consent a foundational component of interoperable healthcare. By advancing standards-based, computable consent, this work helps move the industry toward a future where privacy and patient choice are seamlessly integrated into healthcare data exchange.

Join the Conversation on August 13

 If your organization is navigating consent, privacy, sensitive data workflows, or multi‑system exchange, this webinar will offer practical guidance, implementation insights, and a first look at the new FAST Implementation Guide. 

📅 Date: August 13

Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FbZJEoMMQMmnDaKVZbThHA#/registration

Join the FAST community via the HL7 FAST Confluence space,  and follow FAST on LinkedIn.

Topics: FHIR, interoperability, CMS, FHIR Accelerator, FAST, FHIR Implementation Guides, FHIR Community, TEFCA, CMS Aligned Networks Pledge, FAST Scalable Consent Management

FAST Project Management Team

Written by FAST Project Management Team

The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) identifies HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) scalability gaps, defines solutions to address current barriers, and identifies needed infrastructure for scalable FHIR solutions.

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