Rationale Most countries in the region do not adopt yet a framework for standards implementation. As a result, health information systems used by different healthcare providers are still operating in siloes and unable to communicate with one another. Over the years, these siloed systems have been using a wide range of clinical terminologies to define…
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Rationale HL7 FHIR is the leading standard in healthcare today. It is used by hospitals in connecting various hospital-based information systems like patient management systems, laboratory information systems, financial and billing systems or pharmacy information systems. Countries around the world are adopting HL7 FHIR via profile/standards localization. This is done by developing national HL7 FHIR…
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Rationale Most countries in the region do not adopt yet a framework for standards implementation. As a result, health information systems used by different healthcare providers are still operating in siloes and unable to communicate with one another. Over the years, these siloed systems have been using a wide range of clinical terminologies to…
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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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Rationale HL7 FHIR is the leading standard in healthcare today. It is used by hospitals in connecting various hospital-based information systems like patient management systems, laboratory information systems, financial and billing systems or pharmacy information systems. Countries around the world are adopting HL7 FHIR via profile/standards localization. This is done by developing national HL7 FHIR…
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