Guidance from The Sequoia Project on Computable Consent and Privacy

Guidance from The Sequoia Project on Computable Consent and Privacy

Author: John Lynn March 26, 2026 Duration: 22:32

Clinicians, health IT professionals, and policy makers all want to protect patient privacy. This is a hard goal, made harder by the increasing pressures to open up data and share it for treatment and research purposes, and harder still by the proliferation of state laws on data privacy. These laws are only getting stricter and more detailed, and are fragmenting wildly even as the federal government tries to bring everyone together around standards.

The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit consortium, is dedicated to implementing data interoperability in health care, securely and respecting patient needs. In our recent interivew, we hear from two co-chairs of the Privacy and Consent Workgroup at The Sequoia Project: Mel Soliz and Kevin Day, where we learn more about these complex regulations and how their workgroup is providing guidance to make it simpler to navigate.

Learn more about The Sequoia Project: https://sequoiaproject.org/

Learn more about the Privacy and Consent Workgroup: https://sequoiaproject.org/interoperability-matters/privacy-and-consent-workgroup/

Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/


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