Concept of Operations: Relating to the introduction of a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System
6.4.2 Participation and Authorisation Service
Purpose
The Participation and Authorisation Service has three major functions:- Managing the participation process for registration of individuals and their representatives.
- Capturing administrative information, settings and preferences about individuals and their representatives.
- Controlling access to an individual’s PCEHR based on their access control settings.
The participation process and authorisation process are discussed in more detail in Sections 3 and 5 respectively.
Functionality
The Participation and Authorisation Service supports the following functions for an individual:- Manage participation, including:
- Register to have a PCEHR created.
- Request to de-activate a PCEHR.
- Request to re-activate a de-activated PCEHR.
- Associate/disassociate representatives with an individual (note that this may require additional proof to be provided to the PCEHR System operator).
- Update contact details, details of the person to contact in an emergency and notification details.
- Manage access controls (see Section 5.5), including:
- Update access control settings.
- Set/Reset PACC and PACCX.
- Manage access lists.
- TAK generation.
In order to support these functions the Participation and Authorisation Service will need to record the following information:
- Details (name, date of birth, sex and IHI).
- PCEHR status (active, de-activated).
- Contact details (phone number, mailing address, email address).
- Person to contact in an emergency details (name and contact details).
- Custodian information for advance care directive (name and contact details).
- Notification details (email address or mobile number for SMS).
- Authentication details (e.g. user name, password).
- Date(s) of sign up and exit.
- Details about representatives, including for authorised representatives, the basis for authorisation (e.g. parent, guardian, power of attorney), evidence of authorisation, effective date and expiry date.
- Access control settings, including:
- Access control mode (basic or advanced)
- Is a PACC required to be added to the access list (Y/N)
- The PACC (PIN/passphrase)
- Can access without a PACC be undertaken if individual forgets PACC (Y/N)
- Is notification required when access without PACC undertaken (Y/N)?
- Is notification required when new organisations are added to the access list (Y/N)
- The access list (list of organisations and level of access (‘general’, ‘limited access’, ‘revoked’)
- The PACCX (optional)
Related standards and specifications
- XACML 2.0 [XACML] (recommended)
- Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) [SAML] (recommended)
- ISO/TS 22600 Parts 1-3 Privilege management & access control (PMAC) [ISO22600-1, ISO22600-2, ISO22600-3] (informative).
