#Opensource Healthcare Community for #DigitalHealth #Ecosystem [OpenHealthCODE]

The Founders and Core team of Libra Social Research Foundation (LSRF) had promised, to the Government of India, to deliver a fully developed true opensource HMIS MVP. The opensource design was done by the LibraSocial core team in 2021-22. That has now been converted by LetsDoc into a fully working outpatient primary care EMR and Telemedicine MVP product. LetsDoc product is ABDM M3 enabled. LetsDoc has donated the base product to Libra Social Research Foundation in opensource under MPL 2.0 license. As LSRF and LetsDoc continue to expand this seed, we urge all interested HealthTech Ecosystem stakeholders to join this community.  You all are welcome to use the code and associated knowledgebase, as India's Digital Public Goods (DPG) for Health. Help us build an opensource community for primary care HMIS/EMR and other DPG's for Health around it. Let a thousand flowers bloom to achieve the LSRF vision of Health Equity for the Bottom of the Pyramid through Open Source Models on the El

The  OpenHealthCODE  Stamp of Confidence (SoC) for Digital Health Systems is a voluntary program. It is established by AHD to provide for a Stamp of Confidence for Digital Health Systems. Criteria for SoC are established as per as per NDHB Standards and related building blocks notified by Govt of India. The  SoC Program supports the availability of quality Digital Health systems for its encouraged and required use across the National Digital Health Ecosystem. The SoC Program is run as a third-party product conformity assessment scheme for Digital Health systems based on the principles of the NDHB, EHR and MDDS for Health and Meity Open Standards and Opensource policy. Download: Stamp of Confidence Stages and Criteria As a part of its Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (SEA) program designed to guide the healthcare industry in adopting open and uniform digital health standards,  OpenHealthCODE  recently launched the Stamp of Confidence initiative that will recognize health startups bas

Lab SIG - Interoperability Charter:  OpenHealthCODE  together with development sector partners and provider industry associations had convened the pan-India Provider Working Group [PWG] and published the PWG report in Q1 of 2021 ( http://openhealthcode.blogspot.com/2021/04/provider-working-group-final-report.html ). The Diagnostic Working Group was one of the 3 main Working Groups under PWG. The Diagnostic Working Group consultations clearly revealed that approaches to Laboratory Data Interoperability can be the first step in creating an open-source standards-based digital health assets for seeding India’s National Digital Health Ecosystem (NDHE). As a follow through on the Diagnostic Working Group proceedings referred above, Laboratory Special Interest Group (SIG) was constituted as a subset of the PWG’s Diagnostic Working Group, to continue work on the Laboratory Data Interoperability.  Interim Report: This is an interim report on the significant progress made by the Lab SIG. The rep

Lesson from the Covid19 Pandemic – Leveraging Telemedicine and Digital Health to offer 'Appropriate Care' in Rural India Download Here!   The Second Wave of Covid19, in a manner of speaking, was a ‘Baptism by fire’ for Public Health Governance in India. Besides streamlining of provisioning of material resources, one of the key lessons learnt in managing the crisis was clearly, that ‘Appropriate Care’ i.e. Triage was able to take care of about 80% of patients reporting Covid-like symptoms and allowing them to be treated with simple and minimal protocols, at home without overburdening Hospitals in the secondary and Tertiary care segment and thus ensuring better outcomes and better patient experience. Resources could remain available for suitable cases. Less could Indeed be more! Now that we see the disease making inroads into Rural India which is relatively poorly served in terms of first line of care, and anticipate larger numbers that need to be provided ‘Appropriate Care’ we n

  National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations #NABH, Chapter 10, Information Management Systems [IMS] should now been seen in the light of the National Digital Health Blueprint #NDHB Standards Notified by Govt of India in Nov 2019.    OpenHealthCODE has done the mapping of the #NABH Chapter 10 IMS to #NDHB and the NDHB based Building blocks designed by AHD. Going forward this NABH-NDHB mapping will become a guiding light for NABH Auditors/Assessors evaluating the Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities from a IMS perspective. The same mapping can be extended to Joint Commission International [JCI] management of information [MOI]. NABH Chapter 10 to NDHB Mapping NABH Chapter 10 - Information Management Systems Requirements For More Information write to:  info@librasocial.org

Prologue DIGITAL HEALTH ECOSYSTEM -  OpenHealthCODE  VISION Read the Provider Working Group - Final Report - Circulation Copy   Download Sample ePrescription in JSON Format Download Sample eEncounter in JSON Format Download Sample Diagnostic Template in JSON Format Provider Working Groups Concept Note Refer to Published Provider eObjects Over the years economists and leaderships around the world have learnt that economic growth that is gained through the hard work of a creative, healthy and productive working population; is easily lost through healthcare costs arising from disease burdens that come with ageing or other public health challenges; which could be endemic communicable, lifestyle related or pandemics as in the recent experience. This challenge becomes even more acute in the case of developing economies and economies with very young populations which will see longer life expectancies and higher healthcare burdens in the future. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framewor