Interoperability Consultation
Interoperability refers to the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and operate seamlessly together. In the context of healthcare, interoperability enables the sharing and exchange of health information across disparate systems, organizations, and stakeholders, while preserving the accuracy, integrity, and security of the data.
Open HIE:
Health information exchange (HIE) is the exchange of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a hospital system, region, or country.
HIE:
- Provides the capability to electronically transfer clinical information among different health care information systems.
- It makes the sharing of health data across information systems possible
- Normalizes data and secures the transmission of health information throughout databases, between facilities, and across regions or countries.
Overview
Open HIE:A Health Information Exchange (HIE), the shared infrastructure in the large gray box of the OpenHIE Architecture Diagram makes the sharing of health data across information systems possible. Like a universal translator, an HIE normalizes data and secures the transmission of health information throughout databases, between facilities, and across regions or countries.
OpenHIE’s architecture is made up of software components, all interacting/interoperating to ensure that health information from various point-of-service systems is gathered into a health information exchange. To accomplish this, the exchange normalizes the context in which health information is created across multiple dimensions including:
- Who received health services
- Who provided the services
- Where the services were received
- What particular care and services were received
- What products may have been involved in treatment
- Who has financial responsibility
This separation of concerns supports quality, safety, and continuity of care, and facilitates the appropriate use of information needed for population health and metrics calculation.
