Definition of "interoperable" []

• (of a system or device) Able to communicate, and exchange data with another system or device. (adjective)

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• "Doug Fridsma, who directs the Department of Health and Human Services' work to make electronic medical records, or EMRs, become "interoperable" - meaning doctors can share and view them from anywhere."
• "There is still no federal standard, he says, for so-called interoperable communications."
• ""interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match-all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next."