HealthIT Answers March 12, 2020
By John D’Amore, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Diameter Health
Back in the first century AD, the Roman orator Quintilian aptly characterized communication of health information as it should be in the 21st century: “One should not aim at being possible to understand but at being impossible to misunderstand.” Most EHRs today, however, send data with a potential of being understood but with no guarantee. That guarantee is known as semantic interoperability—the expectation that data will be understood and usable by downstream recipients regardless of the source. What are the forces leading the industry toward the achievement of semantic interoperability to unlock the full potential of digital health data?
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