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e-Health Interoperability

Interoperability is a capability of an organisation or system to use, offer and exchange business or technical services with another organisation or system. In simple terms, your Apple Mac can understand my PC.

e-Health is the exchange of clinical information on an industry-wide basis. There is an increasing demand for clinical information to be exchanged between individual healthcare practitioners, healthcare provider organisations and State and Territory health departments. Interoperability will enable this to happen.

Standards
In order for interoperability to succeed a suite of nationally-defined standards is essential. Open standards are the cornerstone of interoperability as they allow e-health systems to evolve without being constrained by proprietary software products.

Interoperability is vital as it drives toward electronic interconnectivity to deliver better health outcomes in a more cost-effective way.

NEHTA is a Supporting Organisation of the HL7 International Standards and Education Meeting to be held 9-14 January 2011 in Sydney, Australia.  The meeting will provide the forum for more than 50 Work Groups, Committees and Task Forces to progress the HL7 V2.x, CDA, V3 and EHR Standards.  An extensive range of Courses, Tutorials and Workshops will allow Australians to hear and learn the very latest developments in EHRs, clinical messaging, terminology, etc. from the global experts and leaders in e-health.

Contact
Dr Andy Bond, Chief Architect - Interoperability - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it