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SIL-Asia trains interns from NTUNHS on setting-up a health interoperability lab

METRO MANILA, Philippines – The Standards and Interoperability Lab – Asia (SIL-Asia) trained four graduate interns from the Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (NTUNHS) from 15 July to 15 August 2019. The one-month internship is part of the international knowledge exchange program between the Asia eHealth Information Network…
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SIL-Asia participates at the DOH-KMITS 10th Health ICT Update

ROXAS, Philippines – SIL-Asia Technical Director, Philip Christian Zuniga and Digital Health Expert, Dr. Raymond Francis Sarmiento shared their digital health expertise during the 10th Health ICT Update by the Department of Health (DOH) – Knowledge Management and Information Technology Service (KMITS) in Roxas City, Philippines on 12 August 2019.  DOH gathered its regional health…
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SIL-Asia hosts ‘FHIRing up Digital Health’

MANDALUYONG, Philippines – The Standards and Interoperability Lab – Asia (SIL-Asia) hosted ‘FHIRing up Digital Health,’ a symposium on Health Level Seven International – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (HL7-FHIR) in the Philippines last 24 May 2019 at the Asian Development Bank.  The symposium gathered around 40 participants from various Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Providers, Health…
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SIL-Asia presents its co-creation framework for interoperability lab set-up

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – SIL-Asia presented its framework and tools to help countries co-create their interoperability labs during the marketplace and open space sessions of the ‘6th Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) General Meeting and Conference on Interoperability for Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC)’ on 8 October 2018 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel. The creation of…
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How countries in Asia build a community to make health systems interoperable

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Viet Nam, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, and Bangladesh signified their commitment towards interoperable health systems at the 6th Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) General Meeting and Conference on Interoperability for Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC) on 9 October 2018. Specifically, these countries committed to forming the AeHIN Community of Interoperable Labs (COIL) with…
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