[8] Most of these SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions.
[10] In 2014, HL7 launched the Argonaut Project along with members of the private sector to advance industry adoption of modern, open interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR.
HL7 International specifies a number of flexible standards, guidelines, and methodologies by which various healthcare systems can communicate with each other.
Such guidelines or data standards are a set of rules that allow information to be shared and processed in a uniform and consistent manner.
Theoretically, this ability to exchange information should help to minimize the tendency for medical care to be geographically isolated and highly variable.