Best practices for handling consent revocation in Care Everywhere?

• A. Delete all data immediately from every system without notification.
• B. Revoke access only in the primary system and leave others unchanged.
• C. Ignore revocation unless the patient requests a review.
• D. Propagate revocation to all connected systems, enforce policy restrictions, and notify data recipients; audit for completeness.

Answer: (D)

Coordinated consent revocation across all connected systems is essential in Care Everywhere. When a patient withdraws consent, the revocation should propagate to every linked data source and recipient, enforce the updated access restrictions according to policy, notify all data recipients so they stop sharing or using the data, and run an audit to confirm the revocation was applied everywhere. This creates a consistent, enforceable privacy posture and helps ensure that patient preferences are respected across the ecosystem, while maintaining traceability for compliance.

Removing data outright from every system without notice bypasses governance and can conflict with legal requirements and care needs, undermining trust and data integrity. Limiting revocation to the primary system leaves other connected systems with unchanged access, creating gaps. Ignoring revocation until the patient requests a review delays action and weakens timely protection of patient information.

In practice, this means an automated, policy-driven revocation workflow that triggers across partners, blocks or revokes access at all points, sends notifications to affected parties, and logs the outcomes for verification.