By: Charlie Harp There is an invention you may have heard of, it’s called the telephone. It is a device that provides physical interoperability between individuals that want to communicate with one another. Assuming they both speak the same language and understand...
By: Charlie Harp As we here at Clinical Architecture have been developing our Symedical product, I have had the pleasure of spending some quality time with UMLS Metathesaurus and RxNorm. As I was going through this journey of discovery, I thought to myself that it...
By: Charlie Harp Semantic interoperability deals with the actual “language” contained in the conversation between applications. Solving the syntactic interoperability issue by using a standard message format does not mean that the terms used by one...
By: Charlie Harp As mentioned in the first article in this series, two critical parts of Clinical Interoperability are physical and syntactic interoperability. These two are essentially the first and second of what I consider to be the four laws of interoperability...
By: Charlie Harp Now that we have a documented definition for clinical interoperability and its macro components, the next reasonable question is: “Why is clinical interoperability important?” Before continuing, please consider the following...
By: Charlie Harp If you have seen the movie Independence Day, you may recall that the nerd/hero of the movie, played by Jeff Goldblum, saves the day by interfacing with the alien mother ship and uploading a virus from the modem on his laptop. When I saw this the...