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

Welcome Address

  • Mr. Nand Kumarum
    Chief Executive Officer
    National E-Governance Division

Inaugural Address

  • Mr. Manoj Jhalani
    Director
    National Health Authority, Government of India
  • Mr. Arjan de Wagt
    Deputy Representative
    UNICEF India
  • Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal
    CEO
    National Health Authority, Government of India
  • Ms. Punya Salila Srivastava
    Secretary
    Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India
  • Mr. S. Krishnan
    Secretary
    Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
    Representative
  • UNICEF
    Representative

Vote of Thanks

  • Ms. Aditi Singh
    Director (Programme Management & HR)
    National e-Governance Division
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

Keynote

  • Mr. Nand Kumarum
    Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    National E-Governance Division
  • Mr. Kiran Gopal Vaska
    Joint Secretary & Mission Director -ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission)
    National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India
  • Ms. Meredith Dyson
    Regional Health Specialist
    HSS, UNICEF
  • Dr. Karthik Adapa
    Regional Advisor
    Digital Health, WHO-SEARO
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

Keynote

  • Mr. J. Satyanarayana
    Chief Advisor
    C4IR India, World Economic Forum

Panel discussion

  • Mr. T. Koshy
    Managing Director
    Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
  • Mr. Abhishek Singh
    Deputy Director General
    Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
  • Mr. Ravikant Sharma
    Incharge Govt. Relations
    National Payment Corporation of India
  • Mr. Debabrata Nayak
    Chief Technical Officer
    National E-Governance Division
  • Ms. Namfon Praposri
    Director of Health Link
    Thailand
  • Mr. Ahmed Riyaz
    System Administrator
    Ministry of Health, Maldives
  • Mr. Prabin Bhandari
    Statistical Officer
    Provincial Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Nepal

Moderator

  • Mr. Rajnish Kumar
    Chief Operating Officer
    National E-Governance Division
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30

Lighting the FHIR: FHIR Fundamentals and Adoption Insights from Member States

Keynote

  • Mr. Kumar Satyam
    Chair Technical Committee
    HL7 India

Experience sharing

  • Mr. Gaur Sunder
    Head
    National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS), MoHFW, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Pune
  • Mr. Abhishek Jain
    Chief Product and Technology Officer
    Swasth Alliance
  • Dr. B. M. Riazul Islam
    Deputy Chief (Medical), Management Information System (MIS)
    Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Bangladesh
  • Dr. Shakira Irfaan
    Registrar in Health Informatics
    Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Moderator

  • Mr. Mark Landry
    Programme Officer
    WHO-SEARO, Focal Point, WCO-Thailand

Health Sector Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) - What are health-sector DPIs? Use-cases & regional perspectives

Keynote

  • Mr. Kiran Gopal Vaska
    Joint Secretary & Mission Director (ABDM)
    National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India

Experience Sharing and Panel Discussion

  • Dr. Vasanthkumar Namasivayam
    ex-IAS
    Public Health Specialist
  • Dr. Adichan Chuajinda
    Deputy Director
    Digital Health Division Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  • Dr. Uditha Perera
    Consultant in Health Informatics
    Lady Ridgway Hospital, Sri Lanka

Panel Discussion

  • Dr. Amit Yadav
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Rajasthan
  • Mr. S. Vineeth
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Tamil Nadu
  • Dr. Ajay Nair
    Volunteer
    National Health Authority (NHA), India

Moderator

  • Mr. Kiran Anandampillai
    Volunteer
    National Health Authority (NHA)
15:30 - 15:45
Tea Break and Networking
15:45 - 17:00

Emerging Practices in Digital Health Interoperability - GenAI for Global Health

Keynote

  • Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal
    CEO
    National Health Authority, Government of India

Experience sharing

  • Dr. Bishesh Khanal
    Director
    NAAMI, Nepal
  • Mr. Srinivas Rana
    Senior Machine Learning Scientist
    Wadhwani AI
  • Dr. Vishal Deo
    Scientist C
    ICMR–NIRDHDS
  • Mr. Syam Adusumilli
    Chief Health Equity Officer
    Ground Game Health
  • Mr. Seesai Yeesunsang
    Public Health Technical Officer
    Senior Professional Level, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Moderator

  • Dr. Vinay Bothra
    Health Policy Advisor
    WHO-SEARO
17:00 - 17:45

Demonstration with GenAI for Health - Use cases

Individual presentation

  • Mr. Vikalp Sahni
    Founder & CEO
    Ekacare
  • Mr. Harsh Dhand
    APAC Lead, Research and AI Partnerships
    Google
  • Mr. Vicky Nanda
    COO & Head International Business (AMEA, Africa & LATAM)
    NiramAI Health Analytix
  • Mr. Aakash Shah
    Director
    Sunoh.AI, eClinicalWorks
  • Dr. Chetan Arora
    Professor
    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Delhi, India

Moderator

  • Mr. Harshit Mansukhani
    Project Associate
    National Health Authority (NHA)
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: How countries are adopting FHIR & DPIs into their national architectures and digital health blueprints

Keynote

  • Dr. Karthik Adapa
    Regional Advisor
    Digital Health, WHO-SEARO

Experience sharing- Presentation

  • Dr. B. M. Riazul Islam
    Deputy Chief (Medical)
    Management Information System (MIS) at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Bangladesh
  • Mr. Mongal Singh Gurung
    Dy. Chief Research Officer
    Policy and Planning Division (PPD), Bhutan
  • Mr. Subas Adhikari
    Computer Officer
    Ministry of Health and Population
  • Dr. Uditha Perera
    Consultant in Health Informatics
    Lady Ridgway Hospital, Sri Lanka
  • Ms. Moonima Abdullah
    Deputy Director General-Medical
    Ministry of Health, Maldives
  • Dr. Adichan Chuajinda
    Deputy Director
    Digital Health Division. Office of the Permanent Secretary. Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  • Mr. Calistro da Costa Pacheco
    Head of Department for Health Statistics and Information
    Timore Leste
  • Mr. Kiran Anandampillai
    Volunteer
    National Health Authority (NHA)

Moderator

  • Ms. Sangay Wangmo
    Team Leader
    Health Systems, Bangladesh
  • Dr. Padmal De Silva
    Medical Officer – Public Health
    World Health Organization Country Office, Maldives
11:00 - 11:15
Tea Break and Networking
11:15 - 12:45

Building with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) using Open Technologies

Keynote

  • Mr. Kumar Satyam
    Chair Technical Committee
    HL7 India

Experience sharing- Presentation

  • Dr. Shruti Gadgil
    Staff Clinical Specialist
    Google
  • Mr. Kunjan Patel
    Group Director
    Argusoft
  • Mr. Bodhish Thomas
    Co-Founder
    Open Healthcare Network
  • Dr. Akhil Malhotra
    Domain Specialist Healthcare
    Thoughtworks
  • Ms. Sayali Satokar
    Sr. Project Engineer
    National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS), MoHFW, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Pune
  • Dr. Uditha Perera
    Consultant in Health Informatics
    Lady Ridgway Hospital, Sri Lanka

Closing Remarks

  • Mr. Grahame Grieve
    FHIR Product Director
    HL7

Moderator

  • Ms Tasmia Islam
    National Professional Officer (Health Information System)
    World Health Organization Country Office, Bangladesh

Implementing Open-Source Digital Health Solutions: A Programmatic Perspective

Keynote

  • Mr. Saurabh Jain
    Joint Secretary
    Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India

Lightning talk

  • Dr. Shekhar Eknath Waikar
    Chief Program Officer
    Intelehealth
  • Mr. Anantraman Iyer
    Director (ICT)
    iHAT
  • Ms. Mansi
    Statwig
    Blockchain eLMIS
  • Ms. Anu Singh
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Dr. Vinay Goyal
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Kerala
  • Mr. Rakesh Maurya
    DDG Statistics
    Incharge of RCH 2.0 portal
  • Mr. Avinash Joshi
    CareNX
  • Ms. Kanupriya
    UNICEF
    Mantra- a success story of digital interoperability at scale
  • Dr. Ritu Pantha
    Section Chief
    Integrated Health Information Management Section, Nepal
  • Dr. Vaibhav Shah
    CRVS
    WCO India

Moderator

  • Ms. Neelam Pol
    Regional Technology for Development (T4D) Manager
    UNICEF South Asia
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30

Advancing Digital Surveillance through WHO Surveillance Data Standards and the Digital Adaptation Kit

Keynote

  • Dr. Nudumbi Ngamala Patricia
    Scientist and Epidemiologist
    WHO HQ

Global

  • Dr. Ogundiran Opeayo
    Epidemiologist
    WHO HQ

Regional

  • Dr. Pathomphorn Siraprapasiri
    Data Integration Expert
    Big Data Institute(BDI), Thailand

Country - experience-sharing

  • Mr. Sethuraman Venkatraman
    President Healthtech
    Argusoft

Moderator

  • Dr. Pavana NPO
    Health Securities and Emergencies
    WHO

Digital Health Applications: Electronics Health Records

Keynote

  • Mr. Madhukar Kumar Bhagat
    Joint Secretary
    Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India

Lightning talk

  • Mr. Paban Ghimire
    National Professional Officer
    Health Information Systems, WHO Nepal
  • Dr. Pradeep Sylva
    Consultant in Health Informatics
    Deputy Director General (Planning) Unit, Ministryof Health, Sri Lanka
  • Mr Tandin Dorji
    Dy. Chief Research Officer
    National Medical Services(NMS) Bhutan
  • Ms. Nardanong Charoensuntisuk
    Plan and Policy Analyst
    Senior Professional Level, Ministry of Health, Thailand
  • Mr. Md. Toufiq Hassan
    Medical Officer, Management Information System (MIS)
    Directorate General of Health Services(DGHS), Ministry of Health, Bangladesh
  • Dr. Akhil Malhotra
    Domain Specialist Healththcare
    Thoughtworks
  • Mr. Bodhish Thomas
    Co-Founder
    Open Healthcare Network
  • Ms. Arti Garg
    Joint Director (IT)
    National Informatics Center (NIC)
  • Mr. Aditya Patkar
    Co-Founder and CEO
    Plus91 Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
  • Ms. Nidhi Jain
    Founder & CEO
    KareXpert Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Moderator

  • Mr. Kiran Anandampillai
    Volunteer
    National Health Authority (NHA)
15:30 - 15:45
Tea Break and Networking
15:45 - 17:15

Strengthening Governance and Legislative Ecosystems for Sustainable Digital Health Transformation - 2 Breakouts

1. Country and Subnational Perspectives

Keynote

  • Mr. Harsh Mangla
    Joint Secretary
    Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Goverment of India

Speaker

  • Mr. Ananth Dwivedi
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Jammu and Kashmir
  • Dr. Neha Arora
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Jharkhand
  • Dr. Suman Singh
    State Mission Director
    ABDM, Government of Chandigarh
  • Mr. Sanyam Agarwal
    Special Secretary
    Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Punjab
  • Mr. Arava Gopi Krishna
    Secretary (Health) and State Mission Director
    ABDM, UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
  • Mr. P. Uday Kumar
    CEO Arogyasri
    Government of Telangana

Moderator

  • Mr. Vikram Pagaria
    Director
    National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India
2. National Perspective

Keynote

  • Dr. Karthik Adapa
    Regional Advisor
    Digital Health, WHO-SEARO

Model Presentation

  • Mr. Himanshu Burad
    Officer on Special Duty to MD (ABDM)
    National Health Authority, Government of India
  • Dr. Pradeep Sylva
    Consultant in Health Informatics
    Deputy Director General (Planning) Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.
  • Dr. Adichan Chuajinda
    Deputy Director
    Digital Health Division, Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Panel Discussion

  • Ms. Moomina Abdullah
    Deputy Director
    General-Medical Records, Health Information, Management & Research Division., Ministry of Health, Maldives
  • Dr. Pradeep Sylvia
    Consultant in Health Informatics
    Deputy Director General (Planning)' Unit, Sri Lanka.
  • Mr. Ritu Pantha
    Chief
    Integrated Health Information Management Section, Ministry of Health and Population
  • Dr. Adichan Chuajinda
    Deputy Director
    Digital Health Division, Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  • Mr. Calistro da Costa Pacheco
    Head of Department for Health Statistics and Information
    Timor-Leste
  • Mr. Mongal Singh Gurung
    Deputy Chief Research Officer
    Policy and Planning Division (PPD), Ministry of Health, Bhutan
  • Mr. Ahmad Latiful Hossain
    System Analyst
    Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh

Moderator

  • Ms. Sonam Yangchen
    Health Policy Support Officer
    WHO and Mr Vikas Dwivedi Digital Health Specialist, UNICEF
Day 3
Time
Joint Sessions
Track 1 - Tech Track
Track 2 - Non-Tech Track
09:30 – 11:00

Joint Workshop on Person-Centred Digital Health systems

Keynote

  • Ms. Ritu Maheshwari
    Secretary Medical, Health and Family Welfare
    Government of Uttar Pradesh

Lightning talk

  • Mr. Sohit Kapoor
    Co-founder
    Driefcase
  • Mr. Ajay Trakroo
    UNICEF
  • Dr. Nayani Dharmakeerthi
    UNICEF
    Sri Lanka
  • Mr. Masud Parvez
    UNICEF
    Bangladesh
  • Mr. Vikas Dwivedi
    UNICEF
  • Mr. Raman Upreti
    National Health Authority
    India

Moderator

  • Ms. Meredith Dyson
    UNICEF
11:00 - 11:15
Tea Break and Networking
11:15 – 12:45

Investing in Digital Health and Sustainable Financing Models

Lightning talk

  • Mr. Ryan Rasheed
    Senior Public Health Officer
    Health Protection Agency, Maldives
  • Ms. Shobha Chaulagain
    Section Officer
    Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal
  • Mr. Calistro da Costa Pacheco
    Head of Department for Health Statistics and Information
    Ministry of Health, Timore Leste
  • Dr. N. S. Gamagedara
    Consultant Coomunity Physician Epidemiology Unit
    Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
  • Dr. Pathomphorn Siraprapasiri
    Data Integration Expert
    BDI Thailand
  • Ms. Sangay Wangmo
    Team Leader
    Health Systems, WHO Country Office, Bangladesh
  • Mr. Mongal Singh Gurung
    Deputy Chief Research Officer
    Policy and Planning Division (PPD), Ministry of Health, Bhutan
  • Mr. Vikram Pagaria
    Director (ABDM)
    National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India

Panel Discussion

  • Ms. Sonalini Khetrapal
    Team Lead
    Health Sector, Asian Development Bank
  • Dr. Hemang Shah
    Director
    Child Health and Development, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
  • Mr. Madhav Joshi
    Chief Executive Officer
    India Health Fund
  • Mr. Sandeep Singhal
    Board Member
    ACT Grants

Moderator

  • Mr. Jayendra Sharma
    Technical Officer
    Health Economics & Health Planning, WHO-SEARO
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30

Reimagining Governance for a Digital & AI-enabled Health

Keynote

  • Mr. Abhishek Singh
    Additional Secretary
    Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology & CEO, India AI Mission
14:30 – 15:30

Advancing Regional Collaboration on FHIR Standards and Digital Public Infrastructure under GIDH

Keynote

  • Dr. Karthik Adapa
    Regional Advisor
    Digital Health, WHO-SEARO
  • UNICEF

Lightning talk

  • Mr. Seesai Yeesunsang
    Public Health Technical Officer
    Senior Professional Level, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health ,Thailand.
  • Dr. Shakira Irfaan
    Registrar in Health Informatics
    Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
  • Mr. Ryan Rasheed
    Senior Public Health Officer
    Health Protection Agency, Maldives
  • Mr. Ritu Pantha
    Integrated Health Information Management Section
    Section Chief, Department of Health Services, Nepal
  • Mr. Calistro da Costa Pacheco
    Head of Department for Health Statistics and Information
    Timore Leste
  • Dr. B. M. Riazul Islam
    Deputy Chief (Medical), Management Information System (MIS)
    the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Bangladesh
  • Mr. Mongal Singh Gurung
    Deputy Chief Research Officer
    Policy and Planning Division (PPD), Ministry of Health, Bhutan

Moderator

  • Ms. Tasmia Islam
    National Professional Officer - Health Information Systems
    WHO-SEARO
  • Ms. Resham Sethi
    Senior Research Specialist
    Digital Health and AI, Ashoka University
15:30 - 15:45
Tea Break and Networking
15:45 – 16:30

Valedictory – Closing and Way Forward

Keynote

  • Mr. Nand Kumarum
    Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    National E-Governance Division
  • Mr. Vikram Pagaria
    Director (ABDM)
    National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India
  • UNICEF
  • Dr. Karthik Adapa
    Regional Advisor
    Digital Health WHO-SEARO

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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Organizers

WHO
UNicef
DIC
NeGD
MeITY
NHA