Google has officially transferred ownership of its Open Health Stack (OHS) to the Linux Foundation. This move establishes a community-led ecosystem, providing developers with open-source tools aimed at addressing global health inequities.
Google is transferring the Open Health Stack project to the Linux Foundation, establishing a new vendor-neutral platform. This effort focuses on core HL7 FHIR technologies and aims to build open-source, AI-ready digital health infrastructure with support from Microsoft and WHO.
A CodeSystem named 'NKR Behandeling - Testing' was developed based on FHIR standards. This is a local development build, generated on February 27, 2026, and provided as a draft version.
The Linux Foundation is launching the 'Open Health Stack Software Foundation,' backed by Google and WHO. This new body aims to serve as a neutral home for open-source software used in digital health applications, including those utilizing AI.
The Linux Foundation announced the intent to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation, aiming to advance open-source, AI-ready digital health applications. Supported by Google and WHO, the goal is to close global health equity gaps.
The World Health Organization (WHO) joins the Open Health Stack Software Foundation. This effort aims to solve fragmented digital health systems in various countries by accelerating the creation of universal health infrastructure based on shared interoperability standards.
This study developed and validated an FHIR R4 Implementation Guide to integrate patient-generated health data (PGHD) from consumer wearable devices into clinical systems. It provides a standardized data transformation framework for lifestyle medicine across multi-vendor environments, addressing global healthcare interoperability challenges.
Health Data Tools has released a generator for synthetic healthcare data, supporting various formats like ADT, ORU, and FHIR. This tool simplifies the creation of sample payloads necessary for system integration demos and QA testing.
Vysio has developed an end-to-end platform that acquires data from wearable hemodynamic monitors via a BLE gateway, standardizes it using FHIR R4, and integrates it into hospital EMRs using standards like HL7v2. This enables the automatic linkage of real-time vital sign information to multiple major EMR systems.
This article technically explains the use of the Bundle resource within the FHIR standard. It describes a mechanism for handling multiple medical records (resources) simultaneously, providing structure and usage through concrete code examples.
NCPeH has released the FHIR resource profile specification for patient information (Practitioner Information Received from the EU) related to prescriptions within the European Union. This profile provides technical guidelines for cross-border healthcare data exchange.
In digital health, patient consent moves beyond static PDFs or checkboxes. Using the FHIR Consent Resource allows patient choices to become structured, machine-readable rules, enabling privacy-aware data sharing across hospitals, research platforms, and national health infrastructures.
HL7 is a family of interoperability standards used to exchange clinical and administrative data between multiple systems like hospitals and labs. Specifically, HL7 v2 is widely used for real-time in-hospital messaging, while FHIR is utilized for modern API integration.
According to OSBytes, healthcare systems are establishing structured 'human-in-the-loop' review processes and governance checkpoints before allowing AI-driven modifications to FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) data. This represents a critical governance approach for autonomous AI writes in regulated healthcare environments.
Cotiviti, a leader in enterprise healthcare software, announced that its Quality Intelligence solution achieved Digital HEDIS Certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for Measurement Year (MY) 2025. This positions the company as a vendor fully supporting digital workflows while maintaining traditional HEDIS reporting capabilities.,details_en:
This material explains FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a standard for medical information exchange. It presents the role and application examples of this technology toward achieving the goal of 'one health' in Japan.
Pontegra Software Technologies offers an 'Integrated Care Pathway' pilot program designed for managing care plans related to specific diseases. This service aims to establish an operational, shared care plan workflow based on real-world clinical guidelines within 4–6 weeks.
Studyfyr provides a platform to govern and manage clinical research execution environments based on standards like FHIR and OMOP. This ensures reproducible data pipelines, managed audit trails, and secure publication of results.
Researchers conducted a large-scale internet scan of major protocols like HL7 and FHIR used in healthcare. They found 2,841 vulnerable services due to flaws such as lack of authentication, revealing that many systems operate without proper encryption.
In 2026, digital health is moving from experimentation into execution. While technologies like AI and remote monitoring are becoming widespread, the critical importance of standards like FHIR and SNOMED CT for data exchange infrastructure is being reaffirmed.