The third edition of this book has been fully revised, reorganized and extended. It provides a clear, readable introduction to healthcare interoperability for the IT professional, student, clinician and healthcare manager. Interoperability between healthcare computer systems depends on the development, implementation and deployment of appropriate standards working together as a tightly specified language.

PART 1 Principles of Health Interoperability.- Chapter 1 The Health Information Revolution.- Chapter 2 Why Interoperability is Hard.- Chapter 3 Models.- Chapter 4 UML, XML and JSON.- Chapter 5 Information Governance.- Chapter 6 Standards Development Organizations.- PART 2 Terminologies and SNOMED CT.- Chapter 7 Clinical Terminology.- Chapter 8 Coding and Classification Schemes.- Chapter 9 SNOMED CT.- Chapter 10 SNOMED CT Concept Model.- Chapter 11 Implementing SNOMED CT.- PART 3 HL7 and Interchange Formats.- Chapter 12 HL7 Version 2.- Chapter 13 The HL7 V3 RIM.- Chapter 14 Constrained Information Models.- Chapter 15 CDA - Clinical Document Architecture.- Chapter 16 HL7 Dynamic Model.- Chapter 17 Sharing Documents and IHE XDS.- PART 4 FHIR.- Chapter 18 Principles of FHIR.- Chapter 19 The FHIR RESTful API.- Chapter 20 FHIR Resources.- Chapter 21 Conformance and Terminology.- Chapter 22 Implementing FHIR