Semantic Interoperability: What, Why and the Technical Essentials
Careful chart review studies have shown that on average 680 people die each day from preventable medical errors. Sharing of computable data, information, and knowledge in an open interoperable healthcare ecosystem could dramatically reduce medical errors. However, there are many views of what interoperability means, and many opinions on how it can be achieved. This session will focus on how semantic interoperability (or plug-and-play interoperability) is distinct from the general meaning of interoperability, why semantic interoperability is vital to our ability to improve patient care, what social and political aspects are important for enabling interoperability, and finally, the essential technical underpinnings of interoperability.
VIDEO: Hear Dr. Stanley Huff’s insights on this session.
Learning Objectives
- Define semantic interoperability and describe how it can improve patient care
- List the important social, political, and technical factors necessary to enable interoperability
- List the essential technical capabilities that underpin semantic interoperability
- Evaluate how their home organization could become more semantically interoperable
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