SPEAKER 2025
Dr. Mithun James
Technical Architect, Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute
About Talk
FOSS meets Primary Health Care: Building AMRIT for Bharat
This talk will help developers understand how open source can drive real impact in India’s public health systems. Using the AMRIT journey as an example, it will show how open-sourcing an EHR platform improved adoption, interoperability, and community contributions.
It will emphasize the importance of starting with stakeholder and community needs, and how developers can meaningfully contribute by aligning with real-world challenges. The talk will also connect this work to the broader India Stack and Digital Public Infrastructure movement, enabling developers to see their role in building public goods and contributing to India’s digital growth story with purpose and pride.
TRACK: FOSS For EveryOne
5th Nov 2025 | HALL A | Time: 12:45-01:15
About Speaker
Mithun James is a medical doctor turned engineering leader with a decade of experience at the intersection of medicine and technology. Passionate about leveraging digital innovation for public health, he has led the design and development of scalable, clinically effective digital health platforms that bridge the gap between healthcare delivery and technology.
He currently leads the architecture and product development of AMRIT, an open-source Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform that supports over two crore beneficiary records and empowers frontline healthcare delivery across PHCs, ASHAs, and diagnostic systems. Mithun is deeply committed to applying open-source principles and public digital infrastructure to strengthen health systems and improve patient outcomes at scale.