MoHFW & NRCeS Launch Bharat Health Terminology Service to Standardise Health Data Exchange (2 July 2026)

India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, backed by the National Health Authority and the National EHR Standards Resource Centre (NRCeS), launched the Bharat Health Terminology Service on 2 July 2026 — a FHIR-compliant API providing standardised healthcare terminology, code systems, and value sets for use across all digital health systems (Healthcare IT News, 2 Jul). Any healthtech product storing or exchanging clinical records now has a government-mandated vocabulary layer to align to, meaning teams that hard-code proprietary code systems today will face costly retrofits when payers and public hospitals enforce the standard.

Source: Healthcare IT News ↗