Tag: digital health

SIL-Asia supports HL7-FHIR Capacity-building in Lao PDR

The Standards and Interoperability Lab – Asia (SIL-Asia), with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), provided capacity-building support to the Ministry of Health Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) on the use and adoption of Health Level Seven International – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (HL7-FHIR).  On July 14-16, 2021, SIL-Asia conducted a three-day HL7-FHIR training…
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SIL-Asia Webinar: Interoperability of Health Facilities

We are warmly inviting you to join the Standards and Interoperability Lab – Asia’s upcoming webinar, ‘Interoperability of Health Facilities’ on April 14, 2021 at 6 PM Manila time. In this webinar, SIL-Asia Technical Director, Prof. Philip Christian Zuniga will talk about requirements and models that should be adopted by health facilities in order to participate in an interoperable…
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SIL-Asia Support at the Lao PDR Digital Health Convergence Workshop

SIL-Asia is one of the facilitators of the standards strategy session at the Lao PDR Convergence Workshop on March 30, 2021. The Lao PDR Digital Health Convergence Workshop was organized to support the development of a digital health architecture blueprint and a digital health strategy for the Lao PDR health sector.  

The Case for an Integrated Contact Tracing Ecosystem in the Philippines

Executive Summary:  Developing a national contact tracing system is one of the strategies adopted by countries to address the COVID-19 pandemic. With the decentralized nature of local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines, different LGUs have also been using various contact tracing applications. There is a need to integrate these multiple applications to streamline the…
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SIL-Asia builds Capacity for Health Interoperability Lab Set-up in Nepal

The Standards and Interoperability Lab-Asia (SIL-Asia), with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), has provided capacity-building support to the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) Nepal in the initiative to establish a health interoperability laboratory in the country. A health interoperability lab is a facility focusing on the interoperability of digital health applications.…
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