Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
About
- The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), launched in 2021, is an initiative of the Government of India aimed at building an open interoperable digital health ecosystem for the country.
- With ABDM, citizens can securely store and access their medical records (e.g., prescriptions, diagnostic reports, discharge summaries) and share them with healthcare providers after their consent, ensuring continuity of care.
- Citizens will also have access to accurate and verified information about health facilities and service providers. Through these initiatives, ABDM aims to make healthcare more accessible.
Components of ABDM
- The core components of ABDM’s technological architecture include four registries for providing a trustable identity across healthcare stakeholders in the ecosystem:
- Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA): A 14 digit unique identifier for individuals to store and share medical records.
- Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR): A comprehensive database of registered healthcare professionals.
- Health Facility Registry (HFR): A digital repository of healthcare facilities across India.
- Drug Registry: A registry of all the drugs across various systems of medicines that are sold in the Indian market.
- Participation in ABDM is voluntary including for citizens. Participation of a healthcare facility or an institution is also voluntary and shall be taken by the respective management (government or private management).
Implementing Agency
- The National Health Authority (NHA) has been given the mandate by the government to design, build, roll-out and implement the ABDM in the country.
- NHA is an attached office of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with full functional autonomy.
Why in News?
- The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission has achieved a major milestone with over 100 crore health records successfully linked with Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA).