How Do You Know When You Have Interoperability?

Abstract

This paper first looks at the several definitions of the word interoperability. Next, the paper addresses several of the distinct components that are factors in accomplishing interoperability: semantic interoperability, functional interoperability, stakeholder interoperability, consumer interoperability, business interoperability, privacy and security interoperability, and international interoperability. This paper discusses each of these components in terms of their current state relating to interoperability and suggests what changes might be made to achieve interoperability.

Solving the Modeling Dilemma as a Foundation for Interoperability

“…In this volume, Ed Hammond presents a very interesting consideration of the interoperability ecosystem [41]. Combining that work with our methodology can help formalizing a multitude of interoperability instances health systems are facing.…”

Improving Interoperability in Healthcare Using Hl7 Fhir

“…HL7 DoF standards provide reusing of information unit known as resource, and it is relatively easy to parse DoF messages since it uses widely known XML and JSON (Lee and Do, 2018). (Hammond, 2018) The resources can be accessed using interactions. The interactions are on instance level (read, vread, update, patch, delete, history), type level (create, search, history) and the whole system (capabilities, batch/transaction, history, search).…”