The importance of interoperability among different health information systems
Review
Keywords:
interoperability, healthcare sector, health information systems, quality, patient treatment, reviewAbstract
Background: The absence of interoperability across health information systems diminishes the quality of patient treatment and squanders resources. Hence, it is essential to establish integration mechanisms among the different health information systems. Aim of Work – The objective of this research was to examine the interoperability prerequisites for diverse health information systems and to condense and present them. Methods – An extensive electronic search was performed on the issue using six databases, namely PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and Embase, up to 2018. The inclusion criteria were to choose English-written papers that were accessible in full text and had aims that closely aligned with the study. A total of 36 articles were chosen for further examination. Results – The concept of interoperability has gained prominence in the realm of health information systems since 2003 and has been a subject of significant interest among academics. The efforts undertaken in this subject mostly focus on a nationwide scale and aim to accomplish the implementation of electronic health records. HL7 FHIR, CDA, HIPAA, SNOMED-CT, SOA, RIM, XML, API, JAVA, and SQL are crucial prerequisites for achieving interoperability.
Downloads
References
Kruse CS, Beane A. Health information technology continues to show positive effect on medical outcomes: systematic review. J Med Internet Res. 2018;20(2):e8793.
Baker SB, Xiang W, Atkinson I. Internet of things for smart healthcare: Technologies, challenges, and opportunities. Ieee Access. 2017 Nov 29;5:26521-44.
Berwick DM, Hackbarth AD. Eliminating waste in US health care. Jama. 2012 Apr 11;307(14):1513-6.
Labovitz DL, Shafner L, Reyes Gil M, Virmani D, Hanina A. Using artificial intelligence to reduce the risk of nonadherence in patients on anticoagulation therapy. Stroke. 2017 May;48(5):1416-9.
Winter A, Stäubert S, Ammon D, Aiche S, Beyan O, Bischoff V, Daumke P, Decker S, Funkat G, Gewehr JE, de Greiff A. Smart medical information technology for healthcare (SMITH). Methods Inf Med. 2018;57(S 01):e92-105.
Shapiro JS, Mostashari F, Hripcsak G, Soulakis N, Kuperman G. Using health information exchange to improve public health. American journal of public health. 2011 Apr;101(4):616-23.
Beštek M, Brodnik A. Interoperability and mHealth–precondition for successful eCare. InMobile Health: A Technology Road Map 2015 (pp. 345-374). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Dagher GG, Mohler J, Milojkovic M, Marella PB. Ancile: Privacy-preserving framework for access control and interoperability of electronic health records using blockchain technology. Sustainable cities and society. 2018 May 1;39:283-97.
Blumenthal S. Improving interoperability between registries and EHRs. AMIA Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2018;2018:20.
Casey A. Health informatics standards. Introduction to Nursing Informatics. 2015:97-144.
Moher D, Shamseer L, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Liberati A, Petticrew M, Shekelle P, Stewart LA, Prisma-P Group. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Systematic reviews. 2015 Dec;4:1-9.
Whiting P, Rutjes AW, Reitsma JB, Bossuyt PM, Kleijnen J. The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2003;3(1):1–3.
Cheryl D. Conceptual Metaphor in the Health Care Culture. 1998.
Beštek M, Brodnik A. Interoperability and mHealth–precondition for successful eCare. InMobile Health: A Technology Road Map 2015 (pp. 345-374). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Walker J, Pan E, Johnston D, Adler-Milstein J, Bates DW, Middleton B. The Value of Health Care Information Exchange and Interoperability: There is a business case to be made for spending money on a fully standardized nationwide system. Health affairs. 2005;24(Suppl1):W5-10.
Wimmer MA, Boneva R, Di Giacomo D. Interoperability governance: a definition and insights from case studies in Europe. InProceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age 2018 May 30 (pp. 1-11).
Sousa P, Uva AD, Serranheira F, Pinto F, Øvretveit J, Klazinga SR, Terris D. The patient safety journey in Portugal: challenges and opportunities from a public health perspective. Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública. 2009 Jul 2;14:91-106.
Katehakis DG, Kouroubali A, Fundulaki I. Towards the Development of a National eHealth Interoperability Framework to Address Public Health Challenges in Greece. InSWH@ ISWC 2018.
Braunstein ML. Health care in the age of interoperability: the potential and challenges. IEEE Pulse. 2018;9(5):34–6.
Adler-Milstein J, Jha AK. No evidence found that hospitals are using new electronic health records to increase Medicare reimbursements. Health Affairs. 2014 Jul 1;33(7):1271-7.
Reading MJ, Merrill JA. Converging and diverging needs between patients and providers who are collecting and using patient-generated health data: an integrative review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2018 Jun;25(6):759-71.
Mandel JC, Kreda DA, Mandl KD, Kohane IS, Ramoni RB. SMART on FHIR: a standards-based, interoperable apps platform for electronic health records. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2016 Sep 1;23(5):899-908.
Dagher GG, Mohler J, Milojkovic M, Marella PB. Ancile: privacy-preserving framework for access control and interoperability of electronic health records using blockchain technology. Sustain Cities Soc. 2018;39:283–97.
Nilsson J, Sandin F. Semantic interoperability in industry 4.0: Survey of recent developments and outlook. In2018 IEEE 16th international conference on industrial informatics (INDIN) 2018 Jul 18 (pp. 127-132). IEEE.
Janaswamy S, Kent RD. Semantic interoperability and data mapping in EHR systems. In: 2016 IEEE 6th international conference on advanced computing (IACC), 2016 Feb 27. IEEE. p. 291–304.
Ciampi M, Esposito A, Guarasci R, De Pietro G. Towards interoperability of EHR systems: the case of Italy. In: ICT4AgeingWell, 2016. p. 133–8.
Braunstein ML. Healthcare in the age of interoperability: the promise of fast healthcare interoperability resources. IEEE Pulse. 2018;9(6):24–7.
Soto-Rey I, Rehr M, Bruland P, Zeidler C, Riepe C, Steinke S, Ständer S, Dugas M, Storck M. Electronic collection of multilingual patient-reported outcomes across Europe. Methods of Information in Medicine. 2018 Dec;57(S 02):e107-14.
Marcos M, Maldonado JA, Martínez-Salvador B, Boscá D, Robles M. Interoperability of clinical decision-support systems and electronic health records using archetypes: a case study in clinical trial eligibility. Journal of biomedical informatics. 2013 Aug 1;46(4):676-89.
Walker J, Pan E, Johnston D, Adler-Milstein J, Bates DW, Middleton B. The Value of Health Care Information Exchange and Interoperability: There is a business case to be made for spending money on a fully standardized nationwide system. Health affairs. 2005;24(Suppl1):W5-10.
Setiawan A, Yulianto E. E-government interoperability and integration architecture modeling using TOGAF framework based on Service Oriented Architecture. The Asian Journal of Technology Management. 2018;11(1):26-45.
Poorazizi ME, Steiniger S, Hunter AJ. A service-oriented architecture to enable participatory planning: an e-planning platform. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2015 Jul 3;29(7):1081-110.
Bhandari GP, Gupta R. Fault analysis of service‐oriented systems: a systematic literature review. IET Software. 2018 Dec;12(6):446-60.
Mahdavi-Hezavehi S, Galster M, Avgeriou P. Variability in quality attributes of service-based software systems: A systematic literature review. Information and Software Technology. 2013 Feb 1;55(2):320-43.
Luthria H, Rabhi F. Service oriented computing in practice–an agenda for research into the factors influencing the organizational adoption of service oriented architectures. Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research. 2009 Apr;4(1):39-56.
Garde S, Knaup P, Hovenga EJ, Heard S. Towards semantic interoperability for electronic health records. Methods of information in medicine. 2007;46(03):332-43.
Munk S. Interoperability services supporting information exchange between cybersecurity organisations. Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science. 2018;17(3):131-48.
Seydoux N. Towards interoperable IOT systems with a constraint-aware semantic web of things (Doctoral dissertation, INSA de Toulouse). 2018.
Dahlweid FM, Kämpf M, Leichtle A. Interoperability of laboratory data in Switzerland–a spotlight on Bern. Journal of Laboratory Medicine. 2018 Dec 19;42(6):251-8.
Scannell JW, Bosley J. When quality beats quantity: decision theory, drug discovery, and the reproducibility crisis. PloS one. 2016 Feb 10;11(2):e0147215.
McGuire MR. A critique of interoperability, big data, artificial intelligence and medical care in general currently. Health Sci J. 2018;12(5):1–2.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2019 International journal of health sciences
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Articles published in the International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant IJHS right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.
Articles published in IJHS can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
This copyright notice applies to articles published in IJHS volumes 4 onwards. Please read about the copyright notices for previous volumes under Journal History.
