Balancing Personalisation and Interoperability: An Enterprise Architecture Approach to Person-Centred Digital Health

Digital health implementations face a fundamental tension between personalisation (tailoring to individual needs) and interoperability (standardisation for data exchange). This paper distinguishes personalisation from person-centred care, examines how enterprise architecture principles reconcile these competing demands, and proposes a three-layer framework balancing flexibility at user interfaces with standardisation in data infrastructure. The paper argues for organisations to adopt ecosystem-aware design recognising that standardisation and personalisation operate at different architectural layers serving complementary purposes.