Publish a policy brief
Share guidance, directives, or clarifications to align implementers nationally.
Open briefs → Coordination • Governance • National Standards
Make digital health interoperable, trustworthy, and nationally consistent.
This portal helps government and regulators coordinate digital health stakeholders, guide national standards, run consultations, and connect projects to the right technical expertise—while protecting citizens, data, and heritage.
Your pathways in ZDHS
Partner • Standards sponsor • Working-group chair • Consultation owner
What ZDHS can host for you
Policy briefs • Standards registry • Pilot registry • Training & literacy
Alignment signals
Ethics (Ubuntu) • Data sovereignty • Safety & trust • Inclusion
Top actions
Start here—fast and practical.
Register a national pilot
List active or proposed pilots, partners, locations, and evaluation criteria.
Pilot registry →Convene a working group
Formalize a standards task team and publish its charter, timeline, and outputs.
Working groups →Issue a standards update
Update interoperability guidance, data exchange patterns, or compliance requirements.
Standards workspace →Run a public consultation
Collect stakeholder feedback on draft standards, regulations, or national priorities.
Consultations →Request rapid technical review
Get expert review of a proposal, MoU, tender specification, or architecture.
Request support →Standards workspace
Registry + templates + implementation guidance.
Interoperability profiles
How systems should exchange data (minimum fields, flows, validation rules, and versions).
Open →Privacy & safety patterns
Consent, access control, audit logging, incident response, and safe AI use principles.
Open →Procurement templates
Standard clauses and checklists for tenders to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure interoperability.
Open →
Placeholders for now: these pages will be created next (same design system). For the MVP, we can publish PDFs and
simple HTML pages first, then add member-only workspaces later.
Consultations
Collect feedback transparently and efficiently.
Active consultations
Public and stakeholder consultations currently open for feedback.
View active →Create a consultation
Use a guided template so every consultation is comparable and easy to respond to.
Start request →Request expert support
Route your need to the right ZDHS experts and working groups.