The Interoperability Tax: Why Semantic Standards will Decide India's Digital Health Winners
A hospital's data can move through India's digital health network perfectly well and still not be understood by the system that receives it. That's because moving data and understanding data are two different problems, and India has only fully solved the first one.
Any healthtech organisation and hospital chains developing off India's digital health system confront a similar hidden cost at some point: "interoperability tax." The two systems may exchange a patient record in exactly the same format and yet not be able to comprehend each other for the following reason: one of the systems may use another name for the same health condition.
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