What is ISO 23903—Interoperability and integration reference architecture about?
ISO 23903 is an international standard that deals with health informatics.
ISO 23903 enables the advancement of interoperability from the data/information exchange paradigm to knowledge sharing at the decreasing level of abstraction, starting an IT concept level through the business domain concept level, domain level up to individual context.
ISO 23903 defines a model and framework for a harmonized representation of existing or intended systems with a specific focus on ICT-supported business systems.
ISO 23903 supports the integration of
- Specifications from different domains with their specific methodologies, terminologies, and ontologies including specific specification style as well as
- Systems based on those specifications
Who is ISO 23903—Interoperability and integration reference architecture for?
ISO 23903 on Interoperability and integration reference architecture is useful for:
- Physicians, nurses, physical therapists in Hospital
- Healthcare clinics
- Insurance companies
- Health information technicians
- Writers and architects of interoperable systems, system integrators
Why should you use ISO 23903—Interoperability and integration reference architecture?
On the move towards digital health, ICT systems get more closely integrated in the real-world business process. This move requires supporting advanced, knowledge-level and business process-focused interoperability between all principals acting in those ecosystems such as persons, organizations, devices, applications, components, or objects to achieve the common business objectives.
ISO 23903 provides an overview of the Interoperability and Integration Reference Architecture that includes scope, justification, and explanation of key concepts as well as resulting model and framework.
ISO 23903 facilitates the deployment of existing standards and systems, the analysis and improvement of specifications under revision as well as the design of new projects by enabling the use-case-specific identification and consistent formal representation including constraints of necessary components with their specific concepts and their relationships.
