Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already announced the pilot project of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15, 2020.
Currently, the mission is being implemented in the pilot phase in six Union Territories. The nation-wide rollout of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission coincides with NHA celebrating the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY). The Union Health Minister will also be present on the occasion.
About Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will create a seamless online platform by providing a wide range of data, information, and infrastructure services, leveraging open, interoperable, and standards-based digital systems while also ensuring security, confidentiality, and privacy of health-related personal information. The Mission will also enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.
The key components of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include a health ID for every citizen which will work as their health account, to which personal health records can be linked and viewed with the help of a mobile application. A Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Healthcare Facilities Registries (HFR) will act as a repository of all healthcare providers across both modern and traditional systems of medicine. This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors/hospitals and healthcare service providers.
This Mission will create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem, similar to the role played by the Unified Payments Interface in revolutionizing payments. Citizens will only be a click away from accessing healthcare facilities.
