On June 18, 2026, the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) convened the first online meeting of the community of practice (CoP), six months after the Digital Health Blueprint Toolkit Bootcamp facilitated by the World Bank and AeHIN in November 2025.

This is the first of several meetings scheduled for 2026, aiming to re-energize the community, continue conversations on digital health blueprints, and help CoP members remain engaged in peer learning, experience sharing, and supporting each other.

Fourteen participants from 12 countries attended. Mr. Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, Executive Director at AeHIN, welcomed the participants and shared the opportunity for the community, including the possibility to present developments from their national digital health programs at the Global Digital Health Forum (GDHF) 2026. Mr. Ali Habib from the World Bank gave the opening remarks and provided and provided updates from two countries that could not participate in the meeting. Ms. Fathimath Shamah from the AeHIN Working Council facilitated the meeting and discussions with community members.

Summary of country updates

  • Australia shared a resource for standards and interoperability efforts.
  • Bhutan is rolling out its national electronic Patient Information System (ePIS) and the distinct digital health capabilities required for its special economic/administrative zone.
  • Cambodia is updating its Digital Health Enterprise Architecture Blueprint (CamDHEA) for a nine-year horizon (2027–2035) as well as its Digital Health Strategy (2016), and is holding a consultative workshop to review and align both documents.
  • Fiji is using the Toolkit for costing and investment case development
  • Indonesia used the Toolkit to cost its new digital health transformation strategy.
  • Maldives announced the launch of the Maldives Digital Health Blueprint.
  • Nepal conducted a multi-stakeholder meeting to finalize its draft digital health blueprint
  • Pakistan launched a health component under the Pakistan Digital Authority, which includes the ongoing development of a sectoral digital health strategy based on the Toolkit.
  • Papua New Guinea scheduled its first blueprint workshop for July 2026.
  • The Philippines shared that South Cotabato province is localizing its digital health enterprise architecture, that Aklan province’s health information exchange prototype is advancing, and that the Standards and Interoperability Lab Philippines has been continuously supporting capacity-building efforts for data standardization. The Toolkit was also introduced in the Master of Science in Health Informatics program of the University of the Philippines Manila.
  • St. Lucia published its draft blueprint for public review, conducted technical working group (TWG) workshops, endorsed the OpenHIE-on-FHIR architecture, developed a ten-year investment plan, and completed its Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM) assessment (level 3).

In the coming months, CoP members can expect to learn more about TWGs, a refresher on the costing tool, including sharing of country implementations, and more.