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Hospitals have many systems that perform clinical and business workflows, and function acceptably on their own for their own stated use cases. However, it is their harmonious integration, working together, that unlocks their true potential. Interoperability can help to lower the cost and barriers to healthcare, by helping to reduce delays and repeat examinations, by enabling collaboration with care teams locally and globally, and by helping to reduce medical errors through making information accessible. Standards help to enable more efficient and more effective diagnostic service delivery. This chapter will delve into HL7, DICOM, and IHE, and why we use them. Even as application development paradigms shift to service-oriented architectures and cloud-based services, the underlying need for interoperability remains ever-present. These versatile, dynamic environments with many systems continue to evolve, but by being able to integrate these tools deeply together, there is a direct impact on human lives. This is the promise of interoperability.
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Genereaux, B. (2021). Standards and Interoperability. In: Branstetter IV, B.F. (eds) Practical Imaging Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1756-4_12
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