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Healthcare IT consulting

Standards, interoperability, governance, and specifications from a team that has helped shape them — HL7, FHIR, and IHE, from strategy to conformance testing.

What is healthcare interoperability consulting?

Healthcare interoperability consulting helps organizations make clinical systems exchange data reliably and safely. Interop IT defines the architecture, selects and profiles standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, and IHE, writes implementable specifications, sets up governance, and runs conformance testing so every connected system behaves as agreed.

Who it's for

Health ministries, regional networks, hospitals, clinics, and the vendors who build for them — anyone who needs different systems to exchange clinical data and mean the same thing by it.

What we do

  • Interoperability strategy — map what must connect to what, and in what order.
  • Standards selection and profiling — choose between HL7 v2, FHIR, and IHE profiles, then constrain them to your use case.
  • Specifications and implementation guides — documents vendors can build to, with examples and validation rules.
  • Governance — change processes, versioning, and stakeholder alignment that hold up over years.
  • Conformance testing — test plans, tooling, and connectathon-style events on the Gazelle platform.

How an engagement runs

  1. Assessment — a short, fixed-scope review of your systems, constraints, and goals.
  2. Blueprint — architecture, standards choices, and a phased roadmap, in plain language.
  3. Specification and testing — we write the rules, then prove systems follow them.
  4. Handover or build — your team or ours implements; either way, we stay accountable.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR, CDA, and IHE integration profiles such as XDS, PIX/PDQ, and ATNA, along with terminology standards. Our founder co-chaired the IHE IT Infrastructure domain and sits on the IHE International Board.

Conformance testing checks that a system implements a specification exactly as written, before it is connected to anything real. It turns integration surprises into test reports. We manage the Gazelle conformance platform for agencies in Canada, Switzerland, and France.

Yes. We write implementation guides and FHIR profiles that vendors can actually build to, with examples, validation rules, and test plans attached.

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