The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined the newly established Open Health Stack Software Foundation (OHS-SF), an initiative designed to help countries build interoperable, standards-based digital health systems.
Hosted by the Linux Foundation and supported by WHO, Google and an international coalition of health and technology organizations, the foundation aims to reduce fragmentation in digital healthcare by providing open-source software, shared standards and reusable infrastructure.
The foundation's software is designed around internationally recognized standards already recommended by WHO, including HL7 FHIR for health data exchange and global clinical terminologies such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
These standards help ensure that health information recorded in one system can be interpreted consistently by another.
Another important component is the integration of WHO SMART Guidelines, machine-readable versions of WHO's clinical and public health recommendations.
By embedding these guidelines directly into software, countries can implement evidence-based healthcare recommendations without having to translate policy documents into digital workflows themselves.
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