05 Mar 2025

Advancing Toward Computable Consent: A Landscape Review by The Sequoia Project

The Sequoia Project, a leading advocate for advancing health information sharing, has released a new whitepaper titled “Moving Toward Computable Consent: A Landscape Review” for public feedback.

This publication highlights the critical need for effective privacy and consent management when exchanging personal health information. It provides an in-depth analysis of the current challenges faced by those managing personal health data, evaluates existing solutions, and assesses the strengths and limitations of these approaches.

"Privacy and consent are among the most complex challenges in health IT interoperability today, especially with the rapid increase in health information exchange and the heightened sensitivity surrounding health data," says Mariann Yeager, CEO of The Sequoia Project. "Patients and healthcare providers rely on us to develop secure and appropriate methods for computable consent and data segmentation to safeguard their most sensitive information."

Read full article here.