A single broker based prototype of the Context Provisioning Architecture has been deployed on a Cloud platform and work is under progress to enable a federation of many such Cloud-based instances to be federated together in order to exploit the scalability, reliability, performance and interoperability related benefits offered by the Cloud platform.
Investigate how cloud interoperability field can benefit from reuse techniques: reuse techniques as frameworks, crosscutting framework (Coelho et al. 2006), software product lines (Clements and Northrop 2002), model-driven development (France and Rumpe 2007), among others, have presented many advancements in development of systems in general.
Although service-oriented architecture (SOA) promotes the benefits of interoperability, reuse, and rapid development, poor performance will spell disaster.
The utilities communication architecture (UCA) concepts represent a significant step forward in the application of standards to provide benefits of interoperability among systems.
Using the considered case studies, this paper also details and demonstrates the benefits of interoperability enhancement using the CMSDIM, which is an important consideration in any product life cycle.
Because of the Internet's benefits of interoperability, statistical sharing, and (usually) positive network externalities, providers of new applications and services will attempt to create new markets for their services through the Internet, even if the underlying technical architecture of the Internet is not intrinsically designed to support such services.
Estonia is a country that clearly demonstrates the benefits of interoperability.
Craig Bachmann, senior director of the open digital programme at industry body TM Forum, said interoperability offers a range of benefits: operational efficiencies, such as improved uptime; new services that deliver outcomes; more productivity for employees, as well as more "engaging work experiences".
The more case studies available, the more confident researchers and practitioners will become regarding the benefits of cloud interoperability, and the validity of the research.
These findings, regarding interoperability, provide insight on the benefits of adopting, implementing and using EHR IS and HIE networks in order to improve healthcare delivery by allowing more interaction with and transfer of information about patients to caregivers, and clinical care coordinators, and therefore, increasing efficiencies related to clinical and administrative tasks.
