This project develops a Digital Public Good (DPG) designed to ensure continuity of healthcare for migrant children and other vulnerable populations in transit. The platform leverages the HL7v2 interoperability standard to connect isolated Health Information Systems with a secure Google Cloud infrastructure, enabling healthcare providers to access real-time medical summaries regardless of the original data source. It incorporates NFC/QR technology for rapid and reliable patient identification and operates under a Data Trust model, in which the child’s legal guardian explicitly authorizes all access to the child’s medical data, strengthening the continuity of care across borders.
Our mission is to ensure that no child's health history is left behind at a border. We aim to empower migrant families with ownership of their own health information and provide healthcare workers with the digital tools and vital data needed to deliver timely, dignified, and continuous care, regardless of location. Our vision extends beyond any single country: the real impact is realized when the system covers entire migration routes. The potential for scaling is immense—any migration corridor in the world can benefit from this infrastructure for equitable healthcare.
Migrant children and adolescents often lack a continuous medical history as they move across borders, with their health records fragmented across isolated Health Information Systems, stored in disconnected silos, or kept in physical documents that are easily lost. This fragmentation results in data invisibility, making it difficult for health systems to track immunization status, chronic conditions, or allergies in transient populations; medical inefficiency, including redundant examinations, repeated treatments, and over-vaccination due to the absence of prior records; delayed or inappropriate care caused by missing clinical background.
We propose a centralized, end-to-end interoperability layer that acts as a secure “bridge” between disconnected health posts. At its core is an open-source HL7v2 connector that extracts, ingests, and unifies data from local healthcare providers into a secure Google Cloud Healthcare environment, creating a standardized and accessible medical summary. The solution also includes a Universal Identification mechanism through low-cost NFC wristbands or QR cards assigned to each child, enabling healthcare staff to instantly and securely retrieve the minor’s health information. Complementing this architecture is a Consent Layer based on a Data Trust model, in which the child’s legal guardian explicitly authorizes all access to the child’s medical data, strengthening the continuity of care across borders.
