3 Ways To Invest in Interoperable Health Information Systems

June 05, 2018These are the paths that will lead  us beyond lofty goals and onto practical action.We know that interoperability is key to improving the effectiveness and resilience of health information systems.As we ' ve  said before, it ’s crucial to overcoming the fragmented and proprietary global health information systems we have today, and can allow governments and their stakeholders to make the most of their data, including extending, upgrading, and preserving it.  Yet how do we move from that lofty goal to practical action? For us atIntraHealth International, there are three clear pathways to greater health systems interoperability: standards, tools, and advocacy.Interoperability StandardsHealth information systems need clear standards to communicate with each other and with the wider health ecosystem. So we ’re developing those standards.For instance, through theOpenHIE effort, IntraHealth is a core contributor to the Care Services Discovery (CSD) profile, which supports queries across related directories that contain data about organizations, facilities, services, and providers.We also contribute to the Mobile Case Services Discovery (mCSD) profile. This is based on HL7 ’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard and supports transactions and actors similar to CSD, including pulling data on organizations, locations, health care services, and practitioners from multiple data sources and responding to queries on those resources.Interoperabil...
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