Interoperability is a work execution problem, not a data problem. Healthcare struggles because humans are forced to manually ...

As the secure credentials industry is looking for ways to escape vendor lock-in and coalesce around standards that allow interoperability, the nature of these standards and what they offer becomes of ...

Several recent announcements have given me cause to think about open standards and interoperability. Last month Microsoft and Novell announced they would work together on Web services-based management ...

The digital unit of the healthcare system, NHSX, has published its plan with a set of five priorities for advancing on the standards and interoperability agenda. Commenting on the complexities and ...

A robust "communications middleware" market is a more likely direction for this industry than interoperability. Over my three days at Enterprise Connect this year and throughout past VoiceCons, one of ...

The federal government must take a more active and informed role in developing open standards that promote interoperability among IT systems, a panel of experts said today. Interoperability is ...

Electronic health record adoption is on the rise. The number of hospitals using basic EHR systems tripled from 12.2 percent in 2009 to 44.4 percent in 2012, according to a report released by the ...

The American Medical Informatics Association and Health Level Seven International on Tuesday announced a new partnership to drive efforts to broaden use of comprehensive standards for healthcare ...

Authorities are increasingly leveraging digital identification systems to achieve this goal and ensure their social ...

Interoperability of different Web services specifications came closer to fruition with this week’s release of the Basic Profile 1.0 by the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization. Covering ...

When a patient walks into a hospital, there’s no guarantee that patient’s medical records will be accessible to providers, or that the medical records are indeed the correct ones for that particular ...