/making the ehealth> connection* by W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D., is a good summary of interoperability issues that health care IT solutions must address.*
Interoperability issues in health care:
- Semantic
- Technical
- Human/Computer
- Communications
- Functional
- Data Transport
- Decision Support Standards
- EHR Functional Standards
- Business
- Security and Privacy
- Legal, Ethical and Societal
- Stakeholder
- Environmental
Topic maps can address semantic interoperability but how does your application handle the other twelve (12) types of interoperability?
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* I disagree with some of his comments on mapping solutions but I will save those for another post.