Abstract
Since the 80’s and 90’s, the medical data exchange and storage represented a huge challenge in the evolution and interoperability between different hospitals and health organizations across the world. If in the early years the amount of data to be exchanged and stored was reasonable, nowadays in the heart of the globalization process we discuss about huge amounts of data to be shared from one location to another location, and sometimes across different continents. In this context, it is critical to have clear standards to enforce the format and semantics of the medical data and more than this, to leverage these standards and integrate them inside the latest IT solutions. This article reviews the importance of standards in the context of the interoperability between different medical systems and the way these standards are being developed and researched in EU-based projects such InteropEHRate.
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