Google, Linux Foundation, WHO Partner to Build Open Source Healthcare Data Platform
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Summary
Google, the Linux Foundation, and WHO established the 'Open Health Stack Software Foundation' to provide a common open-source foundation for healthcare. This aims to enable information exchange between previously siloed medical systems and applications, facilitating next-generation digital health, including AI medicine.
Details
This project evolves from an initiative launched by Google in 2023, with the Linux Foundation providing governance and Google contributing funding and code. The new foundation (OHS-SF) adopts HL7 FHIR, the global standard for healthcare data exchange, as its core pillar. This allows electronic health records, hospital software, patient portals, and mobile applications to exchange information in a common format. Additionally, it provides 'OHS Player,' a tool for deploying clinical applications even in offline environments, and 'AI Commons' for testing and deploying trustworthy AI medical models. This open approach is particularly useful for disseminating guidelines in low- and middle-income countries. For advanced digital health fields like Japan, this common language offers value by connecting diverse devices and systems, although challenges regarding confidentiality and clinical validation remain.
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