Misys Takes an Open Source Approach to Healthcare Interoperability

One of the biggest hurdles the healthcare industry has faced in its march toward increased efficiency is interoperability – interoperability in sharing patient data between provider offices and hospitals and interoperability in tying together related services required for patient care.

For Misys Plc., whose healthcare division had grown through acquisition, the problem of healthcare interoperability was initially an internal problem of how to better connect its acquisitions and enable them to act collaboratively. But healthcare’s interoperability problem is much larger than one company; and Misys quickly realized that the efficiency advantages of an interoperability solution could grow exponentially with a wider view of addressing the problem.

“There was a need to serve a community that was traditionally proprietary and not outward-looking; and the last thing the community needed was a black box solution,” said Tim Elwell, vice president of Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS).