Imagine an on-call doctor desperately searching for the medical history of an unconscious patient. Everything has been entered somewhere: in a surgery, a clinic, a specialist software package. But nothing flows. Nothing talks to anything else.
That is the true face of missing interoperability.
This seemingly technical word is in fact a major lever for transformation, at the crossroads of care, digital sovereignty, medical ethics and collective intelligence.
Here I explore why sharing medical data is not a luxury or progress for insiders, but a vital necessity. And above all, how we could act differently, at the level of carers, patients, institutions… and the technologies themselves.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: When systems don’t talk, it’s the patients who suffer