Integration
To bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole, to make up, combine, or complete, to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do, to unite or combine.

System integration is the process by which smaller pieces of software are brought together to form a larger piece of software that was designed to solve a problem.

Digital integration, in computer science, allows data from one device or software to be read or manipulated by another, resulting in ease of use; see also XML.

Enterprise application integration, also known as systems integration, is the use of software and computer systems to bring together a set of enterprise computer applications.

Horizontal integration and vertical integration, in microeconomics and strategic management, refer to a style of ownership and control.
Healthcare organizations, like other organizations, depend on sharing information to improve their business and professional practice.

Applications and information systems no longer act alone. Information must be sourced from, and presented to, a number of different locations - be they financial, clinical or administrative.

Orion Health’s Rhapsody™ Integration Engine has been specifically designed to meet the present and future needs of health integration. Rhapsody manages and streamlines message exchange between hospital applications, databases and external systems.