Practice Question of the Week: Levels of Interoperability

Question

Answer and Explanation

• Foundational
  systems are able to exchange data but that data does not have to be able to be interpreted by the receiving system.
• systems are able to exchange data but that data does not have to be able to be interpreted by the receiving system.
• Structural
  systems can exchange data while maintaining structural interoperability of the data being exchanged. Data is unaltered but may be “read-only”
• systems can exchange data while maintaining structural interoperability of the data being exchanged. Data is unaltered but may be “read-only”
• Semantic
  systems can exchange data that can be read, understood, and used by both systems
• systems can exchange data that can be read, understood, and used by both systems

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