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Building blocks for the future of global digital health.

A neutral, community-owned home for open-source building blocks — helping developers everywhere create standards-based, AI-ready health solutions.

Hosted by the Linux Foundation
Built on top
Apps & solutions
Built by developers everywhere
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held up by the three pillars
Pillar 01 · Active
FHIR Foundations
FHIR-native core libraries
Pillar 02 · Active
Reference Toolkit
Multiplatform, AI-ready
Pillar 03 · Launching
AI Commons
Safe, verifiable AI · with the WHO
grounded in
The base
Open standards
HL7® FHIR®MCPSkills
Three pillars

One foundation, three pillars of work.

An umbrella structure that maintains the building blocks developers rely on today, opens the fastest path to building a next-gen digital health solution, and creates a neutral space for what comes next.

Pillar 01 · FHIR Foundations · Active

FHIR-native core libraries

The foundational libraries for working with FHIR. Includes new multi-platform kotlin FHIR SDK and battle-tested components for Android, access control and analytics, sustained by an active community of technical partners.

  • Core FHIR Libraries: kotlin-fhir, kotlin-fhirpath
  • Client SDK and server side libraries for building on FHIR
  • HL7® FHIR® interoperability by default
Pillar 02 · Reference Toolkit · Active

Multiplatform AI-ready Reference Toolkit

The fastest way to develop and deploy a next-gen digital health solution — a complete, composable reference implementation built on the FHIR Foundations libraries, ready for Android, iOS and web.

  • OHS Player — the reference runtime
  • KMP client app, web portal & backend
  • AI-ready by design
Pillar 03 · AI Commons · Launching

AI Commons for Global Digital Health

A neutral space for collaboration on safe, effective and Verifiable AI for Global Health — focused on model-agnostic capabilities like evals, benchmarks, tooling for Verifiable AI, developed with the WHO and partners.

  • Tooling to support Evals & benchmarks for Health AI
  • Model-agnostic libraries, relevant skills & MCPs
  • Open and modular by design
Why a foundation

Built for neutrality, sustainability and scale.

The first software foundation purpose-built for global digital health — hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Neutral, open governance

A trusted non-profit holds the project's assets and trademark. Decisions are made transparently by those doing the work.

Sustainable funding

Tiered memberships and grants de-risk the project — no single funder, no single point of failure.

Future proof

An umbrella structure ready to house new initiatives like an AI Commons built on new open standards.

Cost-effective by design

The Linux Foundation "Foundation-as-a-Service" model keeps fiscal hosting low — the majority of funds reach engineering and community building activities.

The ask

Help us build the future of global digital health.

We're recruiting founding members ahead of our official launch. Take a seat at the table shaping the charter, budget and direction.