Several definitions for interoperability have been developed internationally. GDHP participants adapted a previous definition of interoperability as stated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to the following: “The ability of a system or product to transfer meaning of information within and between systems or products without special effort on the part of the user. Interoperability is made possible by the implementation of standards.”
GDHP interoperability activities focus on the adoption and alignment of standards across GDHP members, benchmarking interoperability approaches, and sharing strategies to better enable the exchange of patient data between care providers, organizations, caregivers, and patients.
Identifying and mapping the improvement in healthcare outcomes that interoperable digital health services can achieve and documenting the problems that interoperability can solve.
Documenting the current international landscape, standards, policy drivers, legal frameworks, and supplier requirements for interoperability to be achieved for health services.
Country:
United States of America
Functions:
Principal Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology .
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Country:
Canada
Functions:
Executive Vice President of Digital Health Interoperability,
Canada Health Infoway
July 20, 2020. This white paper focuses on barriers, solutions and drivers related to interoperability, shares lessons learned and best practices that GDHP countries to address interoperability through standards, legislation, policies, incentives and innovative solutions.
April 2, 2019. This whitepaper provides a global interoperability landscape review of GDHP member countries and territories. This analysis set out to inform the GDHP of interoperability related data exchange practices among its members, specifically related to how they exchange data and for what use the data is exchanged.
