Interoperability and connectors: your tools stay, your data flows
Slack, Excel, CRM, LIMS, S3, FHIR, DICOM: connecting your processes to your teams’ tools, to healthcare standards and to your industry software, so information entered once serves everywhere.
By Adama · October 2026Your tools make each person more efficient. Your losses happen between them: an order received by e-mail and re-keyed into a spreadsheet, a test result copied into a report, a patient record rebuilt from three systems. Each break costs time and produces incomplete or inconsistent data.
A connector links two systems so information flows without re-keying. Connecting your teams’ tools rather than replacing them is often the fastest way to digitize a process. It is also the condition for AI: without accessible, comparable data, every model stays locked in a silo.
Agnostic connectors, for business activities
Whatever your industry, your processes run through the same everyday tools: Slack or e-mail to notify a team, Google Drive or Microsoft 365 for documents, Excel for tracking sheets, a CRM for customers, an ERP for orders, a LIMS in the lab, Amazon S3 or a database to store and query. Connecting them avoids copy-pasting and keeps every tool up to date.
Standards, for healthcare and life sciences
In healthcare, exchanges rely on shared formats and terminologies, often required by partners or authorities:
- FHIR to exchange clinical data through APIs, the technical backbone of France’s Mon Espace Santé and CI-SIS;
- HL7 v2 for hospital messaging, still widespread;
- DICOM for medical images and their metadata;
- CDISC (CDASH, SDTM, ADaM) for clinical trial data submitted to the FDA and EMA;
- OMOP CDM and openEHR to harmonize and structure care data;
- SNOMED CT and LOINC to code diagnoses, procedures and lab results.
These standards define the how (format, syntax, meaning); regulatory frameworks such as the GDPR or HDS define the what and the why. The same project often falls under both.
Custom connectors, for other industries
Manufacturing, finance, services: every industry has its own software, files and instruments (ERP and MES, supervision, banking, accounting, ticketing). When no standard connector exists, our team builds it, from the software’s API, its exports or its files.
A connector plugs into a process
The right connector is decided from the process, not the tool: which way data flows, which system prevails, how to recognize the same customer or sample from one tool to another, who may read and write, and how each exchange is traced. In a regulated context, the connector is also part of the system to validate.
Your tools stay. Your data flows.
The full guide presents the three families of connectors, the nine healthcare standards one by one (version, uses, regulatory links) and a checklist to choose or build a connector.
- Connect existing tools rather than replacing them
- Three families: agnostic connectors, healthcare standards, custom connectors
- Standards define the how, regulatory frameworks the what and the why
- A connector is decided from the process, not the tool