Tag Archives: interoperability

What is interoperability?

Posted on 17/04/2021 by wolandscat

There are some rather obscure definitions of health IT’s favourite term interoperability floating around, for example:

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Why using HIT standards fails to achieve interoperability

Posted on 06/09/2019 by wolandscat

I started working in the Health IT area in 1994, on a major European Commission funded project. I attended years of standards meetings at HL7, CEN and occasionally OMG and ISO from 1999 to about 2012. And I’ve observed the … Continue reading →

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A FHIR Experience – the formalism

Posted on 08/05/2019 by wolandscat

This post continues the review presented in the previous post, where I looked at the Administrative resources of FHIR. Here I take a look at the formalism used in FHIR, i.e. how the resources (and profiles) are formally expressed. FHIR … Continue reading →

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Why the platform will replace today’s interoperability standards in healthcare

Posted on 21/07/2018 by wolandscat

For decades, most of us working in health informatics and e-health have lived on the assumption that ‘interoperability’ is one of the main things we are trying to achieve, and that it is the most important because the lack of … Continue reading →

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Yet another e-health standards comparison, corrected

Posted on 25/09/2015 by wolandscat

Recently HSCIC and NHS England published an Interoperability Handbook, intended to help provider CIOs and others steer the difficult waters of obtaining interoperable health IT solutions. The target audience is listed as: CCG Clinical Leaders, Chief Clinical Information Officers, Chief … Continue reading →

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