Understanding technology in complex systems

Healthcare is, almost by default, not delivered through integrated systems because of different policies and regulations and the variety of technologies. That variety and the lack of integration slows down innovation and transformation in healthcare. How do we change that? This is where the rationale behind the SoS concept becomes relevant to use in the platform that we want to develop as part of our transformation. In other words, to address the complexity of various systems, we need to understand the interoperability of these systems.

Integrating systems or components means that they must connect where they’re supposed to. Think of Lego© blocks put together. The blocks are interoperable. The blocks fit together by design. Being able to integrate systems around people needing health attention requires paying the same attention to interoperability.

Interoperability often refers to the ability of computer systems or software...