A brief overview of health IT collaboration and interoperability in five countries in 2018 IE-1050 A brief overview of health IT collaboration and interoperability in five countries in 2018 Title: A brief overview of health IT collaboration and interoperability in five countries in 2018 Report number: IE-1050 Published: 11/2019 Published by: The Norwegian Directorate of eHealth Contact:
[email protected] The report can be downloaded from: www.ehelse.no 2 A brief overview of health IT collaboration and interoperability in five countries in 2018 Preface To understand dominant trends within collaboration, interoperability and health information exchange (HIE), the Norwegian Directorate of eHealth (NDE) conducted a desktop study on five different countries in 2018. The Nordic countries Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were chosen due to the similarities in political tradition, socioeconomic conditions, organisation of healthcare, and a strong tradition for collaboration, also within eHealth. The study also includes the USA and the UK, as they represent different models for collaboration than the Nordic countries. The study is summarized in this report. The report is a snapshot of the situation in 2018. A few changes have been done to reflect 2019, but no full revision of the report has been done. In some cases, the description may therefore not reflect the status in 2019. The report does not provide a complete description of current collaboration models or interoperability solutions but can serve as a starting point for further work on this