Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. It will bridge the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of Healthcare ecosystem through digital highways.
There are five major components for the Mission.
ABHA Number
Your Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) Number is a hassle-free method of accessing and sharing your health records digitally. It enables your interaction with participating healthcare providers, and allows you to receive your digital lab reports, prescriptions and diagnosis seamlessly from verified healthcare professionals and health service providers.
To create ABHA Number, click here
To see the help file regarding creation of ABHA, click here
ABHA App
A personal health record, or PHR, is an electronic application through which patients can maintain and manage their health information (and that of others for whom they are authorized) in a private, secure, and confidential environment.
To download ABHA app, click here
Health Facility Registry (HFR)
This is a comprehensive repository of all the health facilities of the country across different systems of medicine. It includes both public and private health facilities including hospitals, clinics, diagnostic laboratories and imaging centers, pharmacies, etc.
Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR)
This is a comprehensive repository of all healthcare professionals involved in delivery of healthcare services across both modern and traditional systems of medicine.
To enter the portal click here
Unified Health Interface (UHI)
UHI is envisioned as an open protocol for various digital health services. UHI Network will be an open network of End User Applications (EUAs) and participating Health Service Provider (HSP) applications. UHI will enable a wide variety of digital health services between patients and health service providers (HSPs) including appointment booking, teleconsultation, service discovery, and others.
The strong digital background of the country, programs like PMJAY (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana), emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain etc. offers this Mission greater opportunities in the future.
This enables the digital identification of every person, healthcare professional and health care facilities including pharmacies, yoga units, laboratories, physiotherapy centres etc.
ABDM will be designed, developed, deployed, operated and maintained by the Government in accordance with the guiding principles as laid out in National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB).
Objectives
Establish state-of-the-art digital health systems
Establish registries at appropriate levels to create single source of truth
Enforce adoption of open standards by all national digital health stakeholders
Create a system of Personal Health Record (PHR), based on international standards
Promote ‘enterprise-class health application systems’ based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Adopt the best principles of cooperative federalism
Ensure that the Health Care Facilities and Health Care Professionals in the private sector participate
Ensure national portability in the provision of health services
Promote use of clinical decision support (CDS) systems by Healthcare professionals
Promote a better management of the health sector leveraging health data analytics and medical research
Provide for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of governance at all levels
Support effective steps for ensuring quality of healthcare
Strengthen existing Health Management Information Systems (HMIS), by ensuring their conformity with the defined standards
To know more, click here
For help files regarding ABHA, HPR and HFR, please visit the User’s Manuals under the Employees’ corner
