Subject to meeting interoperability criteria, various commercial providers were permitted to provide this infrastructure, and multiple clinical computer systems were developed with different user interfaces, mechanisms and even variations in clinical coding lists.
But, partly because Europe's exchanges are becoming publicly quoted companies, the transition from silo to hourglass will be hard.Don Cruickshank, chairman of the London Stock Exchange, hopes that the European competition authorities might look into the subject to ensure not just interoperability but fully equal access.
Adding to this problem, the standards typically used as pillars for enterprise and network management and (inter)operation are themselves subject to continuous change and often bring their own interoperability, inconsistency and overlap problems.
Adding to this problem, the standards typically used as pillars for enterprise and network management and (inter)operation are themselves subject to continuous change and often have their own interoperability, inconsistency and overlap problems.
In smarter government, interoperability becomes increasingly important as relationships are subject to continuous changes and organizations operate within organizational ecosystems.
"Interoperability" is thus the name of the game, a subject to which Apple's Chief Executive Steve Jobs Steve Jobss' rival Steve Ballmer Steve Ballmer is also no stranger.
"The commission is concerned about interoperability issues, and we're committed to interoperability," Mr. Smith said.
We spend a lot of time in standards bodies dedicated to interoperability.
After discussions with the OFT, Becta then referred its interoperability complaint and related evidence to the European Commission to support its formal investigation in relation to Microsoft's approach to interoperability across a number of areas.
Do existing approaches to interoperability and openness still work?
