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

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

Epidemiology Surveillance is a Lever of Change - for implementation of National Digital Health Blueprint and adoption of National Digital Health Ecosystem. Given the vast and variable nature and quality of legacy and operational data being generated in  real time which requires to be captured, any solution adopted requires to essentially ingest these  disparate forms, allowing meaningful options in its use. This becomes a tall order for traditional  architectures like Data Warehouses, that constrain the types of data that can be stored in them,  both in terms of type and quality. Data lakes are the leading edge and evolving architecture that can help store, share and use  electronic health records and other patient data in its ever-expanding variety. Data Lakes open the  possibility of taking Healthcare Analytics to its Next Level by keeping pace with the rapid growth in  types and magnitude of data that needs to be harnessed and made use of. It is important here, to  understand the di