Dear Koray, I am currently doing a PhD research on the topic of EHR Semantic Interoperability. So I am also very interested in formal ways of measuring system interoperability. As you have discovered, I also found relevant literatures are very few. But we could look for similar ones in other sectors.
I think for measuring interoperability one needs to investigate how the system can exchange information with other systems and use exchanged information effectively. In EHR specifically, it will probably mean we need to look into how EHR can work together with other EHR systemes and surrounding systems, e.g Patient Administrative System, Decision Support System and Quality Registries etc. Regards, Rong On Feb 11, 2008 10:40 AM, Koray Atalag <atalagk at yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I started this thread to get some feedback for finding methods/metrics > to test & validate maintainability and interoperability (of Archetype > based two-level apps). And I got very nice ones; however for > interoperability, apart from Gerard's interface numbers I did not get > any and interestingly from a quick literature survey I got very little. > I mean there are some indirect approaches but not straightforward. My > case is a little more easier: > > 1) There is an up and running clinical IS developed with single level > methodology based on an internationally agreed terminology including > relationships and structure (domain knowledge let's say) > 2) There is a complete Archetype model of this terminology using openEHR > RM which can comfortably be considered as a domain ontology (it has more > than what is given in terminology; i.e. existences, cardinalities) > 3) These two can be said to have the same domain knowledge; ie. one > hardcoded and one two-level modelled. > > Now can you think about a method to evaluate the interoperability > levels/score of two systems? > > Do we need a remote system for benchmarking (i.e. connect and see how > they interoperate)? > > Sorry to bother....but if we can get this straight perhaps we can > express comfortably that a two-level app beats a single level app 7x in > maintainability and 5x interoperability. Or beats 2x HL7 system in > maintenance but is beaten 2x in interoperablity. Perhaps I am being too > naive but it is worth trying. > > Koray Atalag wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to learn how we can formally/objectively prove that Archetype > > based dual level development formalism alleviates problems of > > interoperability and maintainability. I was wondering if someone did or > > know of any such study which applies formal validation methods? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Koray Atalag, MD, Ph.D. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openEHR-technical mailing list > > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080211/b2ecf3d7/attachment.html>
