Regional Open Digital Health Summit 2025 in New Delhi
Why in the news
India hosted the second summit on open, standards-based digital health for South-East Asia.
Key facts
- Aim: standards-based digital health for LMICs, through capacity building and policy harmonisation.
- Promotes FHIR, open APIs and open-source tools; links with UHC and SDGs.
- Sessions drew on India’s ABDM, CoWIN, UPI, Aadhaar; generative AI demos came from eClinicalWorks, Google, NiramAI and IIT Delhi.
Objectives
- Create interoperable, people-centric digital health ecosystems.
- Modernise legacy health information systems to reduce fragmentation.
Exam angle
- Second edition; host India; partner WHO-SEARO.