Standards for interoperability in digital health: Selection and implementation in an ehealth project

Abstract

The complexity increase of healthcare processes together with wider adoption of eHealth systems imposes stringent consideration of interoperability across deployed services. Addressing this, standard organizations are proposing standards, sometime enforced through regulation, to develop interoperable eHealth services. Facing an increasingly important number of standards, industrial associations are building application-specific interoperability profiles identifying subset of standards relevant for the targeted applications. This chapter proposes an approach for eHealth service developers to efficiently capture interoperability requirements using these profiles and illustrate it through its application to a transnational project.