Stream: implementers
Topic: Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
Sandeep Giri (Oct 11 2016 at 19:31):
What could be the appropriate FHIR resource to represent a BAA between a care provider and a 3rd party (e.g. another care provider or an application developer)? I was looking at https://www.hl7.org/fhir/documents.html and thinking of using Composition, but I couldn't find FHIR document type to represent a "BAA". Any thoughts on how to approach this will be appreciated. Thanks
Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2016 at 19:38):
BAA is outside our expected scope. Try Contract
Paul Knapp (Oct 23 2016 at 06:44):
Yes Contract.
John Moehrke (Oct 25 2016 at 02:47):
It is likely an unstructured document. Such as PDF. Could be indexed using DocumentReference
Paul Knapp (Oct 25 2016 at 05:43):
Given that @Sandeep Giri asked for a resource not a code for BAA I assumed he was wanting to render the BAA as structured data - Sandeep is that you intent or are you wanting to file it in an index with a type code of BAA?
Sandeep Giri (Jan 19 2017 at 00:33):
oops, missed @Paul Knapp 's comment - we are planning to use Contract to represent BAA. Our use case is to be able to check if 2 organizations have a BAA in place and check the expiration date before sharing clinical data
John Moehrke (Jan 19 2017 at 02:59):
Yes, Contract would be a fine way to capture a BAA. Please put comments in on any issues you find.
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