Technical Interfaces

This section describes the data interfaces to other systems around it. It follows 3 of the levels of interoperability (IO):

  • Technical interoperability - Datastreams btwn systems. i.e. TCP/IP, RS232, …
  • Syntactic interoperability - Units within the stream. i.e. XML, CSV, HL7, DICOM
  • Semantic interoperability - Common definition of unit meaning.