About the Event

The Regional Open Digital Health Summit 2025 (19–21 November, New Delhi) is a landmark gathering to accelerate the adoption of open, interoperable, and people-centered digital health ecosystems across the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR). Organized by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and IT, in collaboration with the National Health Authority (NHA), WHO-SEARO, and UNICEF, the Summit will bring together policymakers, solution architects, developers, and health experts from across the region. Building on the success of the inaugural summit in Nairobi, the Delhi edition will feature expert-led discussions, hands-on workshops, and collaborative sessions on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), HL7 FHIR standards, WHO SMART Guidelines, and AI-enabled innovation. By fostering regional collaboration, strengthening governance, and driving country-specific roadmaps, the Summit aims to transform fragmented health information systems into scalable, interoperable solutions that advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC), strengthen health security, and support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Objectives

  • Understanding DPI Enhance Technical Capacity for Interoperable Digital Health Systems
  • Showcase DPIs Advance Expertise in Standards-Based Tools and Digital Public Infrastructure
  • Critical Success Develop Strategies for Legacy System Integration
  • Best Practices Establish the South-East Asia Regional Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) Community
  • Critical Success Initiate Country-Specific Roadmaps
  • Best Practices Advance Surveillance Data Standards

Today, an unprecedented convergence of four factors, Open Standards, Open Technologies, Open Architectures and Open Content are poised to help accelerate standards based digital transformation for health.

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Open Standards

Semantic and Syntactic models for data representation, exchange, and processing that ensure the precise meaning of exchanged information is unambiguously interpretable by any other system, service or user. Open standards are developed and maintained through collaborative, consensus-driven processes, and are freely available without license restrictions.

Open Technologies

Modular standards-based, and accessible software tools that help developers and users to collect, store, and transmit or analyze data represented in open standards. Open technologies are transparent, community-based, and licensed under open source software.

Open Content

Representations of public health, health system, or clinical knowledge, which are developed to meet business needs described by an open architecture. Assets include datasets, decision-support logic, care protocols, workflows, and templates, all freely available without license restrictions.

Open Architecture

Documentation using open standards, describing diverse digital interconnections of health systems. Provides infrastructure for digital health tools, fosters ecosystems, and is developed collaboratively through consensus-driven processes, available without license restrictions.

Agenda

Date: November 19-21, 2025

Day 1
Time
Joint Sessions
Track 1 - Tech Track
Track 2 - Non-Tech Track
9:30 – 10:30
Inaugural Welcome Session
10:30 – 11:15

Plenary Session: How Open Standards, full-STAC and Digital Public Infrastructures accelerate digital transformation, Open Standards for Digital Health Transformation: Why they matter for interoperability and the DPI approach

11:15 – 11:30
Tea Break and Networking
11:30 – 13:00
Foundational Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) - What are foundational DPIs and their role in health ecosystems
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30
FHIR Foundations: Fundamentals of the FHIR specification and topics specifically relevant for digital health developers
Health Sector Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) - What are health-sector DPIs? Use-cases & regional perspectives
15:30 - 15:45
Tea Break and Networking
15:45 - 17:00
Emerging Practices in Digital Health Interoperability - GenAI for Global Health
17:00 - 17:45
Demonstration with GenAI for Health - Use cases
Day 2
Time
Joint Sessions
Track 1 - Tech Track
Track 2 - Non-Tech Track
09:30 – 11:00
National Architectures - Overview of National Architectures and their importance for Digital Health Transformation, followed by a showcase of how countries are adopting FHIR & DPIs into national architectures / blueprints
11:00 - 11:15
Tea Break and Networking
11:15 - 12:45
Building with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) - Open technologies for building with FHIR (Android FHIR SDK, Mapping, Analytics) & Analytics on FHIR: FHIR Data Pipes (dashboards & SQL-on-FHIR)
Implementing Open-Source Digital Health Solutions: A Programmatic Perspective
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30
Applying Open Standards and WHO SMART Guidelines: Regional Perspectives and Opportunities
Digital Health Applications : Electronics Health Records
15:30 - 15:45
Tea Break and Networking
15:45 - 17:15
Strengthening Governance and Legislative Ecosystems for Sustainable Digital Health Transformation - 2 Breakouts (Country and Subnational Perspectives )
Day 3
Time
Joint Sessions
Track 1 - Tech Track
Track 2 - Non-Tech Track
09:30 – 11:00
Joint Workshop by UNICEF: Person centred Digital Health systems
11:00 - 11:15
Tea Break and Networking
11:15 – 12:45
Investing in Digital Health and Sustainable Financing Models
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30
Reimagining Governance for a Digital & AI-enabled Health
14:30 – 15:30
Advancing Regional Collaboration on FHIR Standards and Digital Public Infrastructure under GIDH
15:30 - 15:45
Tea Break and Networking
15:45 – 16:30

Valedictory – Closing and Way Forward

Event Venue

For more details, read our Logistic Note.

Date: 19-20 November 2025

Venue: The Ashok Hotel, Niti Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
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Date: 21 November 2025

Venue: India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi
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DELHI WEATHER

Organizers

WHO
UNicef
DIC
NeGD
MeITY
NHA