1. IT healthcare interoperability A BUSINESS RESEARCH

2. So what is this about? Have a picture on the global landscape of IT Healthcare Interoperability Finding what standards are being used by vendors ◦How they use them? How do they connect with each other? How can we bring value to GPs and hospitals ◦Value is something we can measure as an improvement ◦IT (in business) that does not add value is worthless How do we develop a solution that brings value and allows us to bring interoperability

3. What have we found? A wish turn into a need ◦ Sharing patient information without any hassle both horizontal and vertically Attempts have been made before but faced several issues ◦Everyone has different needs! (even among GPs) ◦They still needed new systems to improve their processes ◦So everything was custom made A “temporal patch” which were trying to get rid off ◦Because now we’ve got these “information silos”

4. Why is this important? (and interesting) It is all about improving Patient Care ◦From a simple cold to chronic degenerative diseases. 40+ years dealing with these problems Many bodies is involved: from the WHO to local governments ◦As well as standards organizations: HL7, ISO, ASTM, IHE + national organizations How do we connect all healthcare in a country? ◦How about healthcare worldwide? Countless man-hour have already been invested ◦Directly or indirectly funded by governments (which is your money)

5. Our interest? Understand the healthcare standards arena Understand how to connect organizations (GPs and hospitals mainly) Add value to GPs ◦By improving the speed and quality of the information they transfer ◦And therefore the service they provide to you.