Glossary

What is Consent revocation?

Updated September 1, 2026

Consent revocation is a patient's withdrawal of permission for their health data to be used, and the hard engineering problem is propagation: every downstream system that holds or derives from the record has to honor the withdrawal, immediately and provably. In SuperTruth's ConsentOS, revocation propagates downstream the moment it is made, and every consent event lands in an immutable, hash-chained audit log.

Static consent, collected once and assumed forever, is one of the five structural barriers to trusted health data. Consent has scope, duration, and hygiene, and records are re-scored automatically when consent changes.

The practical test is the pharmacy counter: a revocation made this morning has to reach the dispensing check this afternoon, not the next quarterly sync.