What is the Community of Interoperability Labs (COIL)?
The Community of Interoperability Labs (COIL) is a group of AeHIN members committed to building capacity on standards and interoperability knowledge and research within their own countries and across borders.
Membership in the COIL is via in-country standards and interoperability labs. SILs are established to develop local capacity to build, acquire, and implement interoperable systems within their countries.
These labs will serve as resources for local stakeholders, public and private. The labs offer teaming, tooling, training, and testing interoperability of electronic information systems.
Characteristics of a standards and interoperability lab
- With a designated full name point of contact and email address with consent to share in the AeHIN and/or AeHIN COIL website
- Staffed with people dedicated to the promotion and adoption of standards and interoperability within their country and across the region
- Nurtures and facilitates a community of practice within their country, and
- Offers a shared interoperability infrastructure to their community of practice.
Objectives
- Promote standards and interoperability within countries and across regions.
- Facilitate collaboration through the sharing of knowledge, practices, and tools.
- Provide teaming, tooling, training, and testing infrastructure for interoperability.
AeHIN COIL (2025)
Active Labs
- Australia eHealth Research Center (CSIRO)
- Aotearoa New Zealand Interoperability Lab (ANZIL)
- Digital Transformation Office (DTO), Ministry of Health Indonesia
- Standard and Interoperability Lab Malaysia (SILab-Malaysia)
- University of the Philippines Standards and Interoperability Lab (SILab)
- Sri Lankan Standards and Interoperability Lab (SIL-LK)
- Standards and Interoperability Lab-Taiwan (SIL-Taiwan)
- Standards and Interoperability Lab Thailand (SIL-TH)
Work in Progress
- Hong Kong Health Data Interoperability & Incentivization Lab (SIL-HK)
- Standard and Interoperability Lab Laos (SIL-Laos)
- Standards and Interoperability Lab Nepal (SIL-Nepal)
- Standards and Interoperability Lab Bangladesh (SIL-BD)
In Discussion
- Japan
- Vietnam
Our Work
An introduction to the AeHIN COIL
COIL Interoperability Demo 2023
Partnerships
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