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The ‘Holy Grail’ of Interoperability of Health Information Systems: Challenges and Implications

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Enabling integration between heterogeneous health information systems (IS) across different institutions is attracting growing interest from national and regional governments. “Interoperability of health information systems” is an overall goal to strive for. This empirical paper addresses the challenges of integrating heterogeneous health information systems with the goal of achieving semantic interoperability of patient information within and between all hospitals in a health region. The paper describes a complex development and integration process, and looks into a promising strategy of using openEHR archetypes as an architecture to reach the goal of interoperability.

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    A Norwegian acronym, in English “Common Deployment of Clinical Systems”.

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    The National ICT Health Trust is responsible for coordinating ICT-related initiatives in the specialized health care services. It is a central agent in bringing about and realizing national efforts and strategies for ICT. The mandate is given by the Regional Health Authorities.

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    Line Silsand

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  2. Østfold University College, Halden, Norway

    Joackim Karlsen

  3. Østfold University College, Halden, Norway

    Harald Holone

  4. Østfold University College, Halden, Norway

    Cathrine Linnes

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Silsand, L. (2017). The ‘Holy Grail’ of Interoperability of Health Information Systems: Challenges and Implications. In: Stigberg, S., Karlsen, J., Holone, H., Linnes, C. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64695-4_11

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