Currently, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is being implemented in a pilot phase in six union territories
To provide a digital health ID to people for containing their health records, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. The pilot project of the mission had been announced by the prime minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15 August 2020.
Currently, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is being implemented in a pilot phase in six union territories.
Its nationwide roll-out coincides with the National Health Authority celebrating the third anniversary of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, based on the foundations laid down in the form of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile (JAM) trinity and other digital initiatives of the government, will create a seamless online platform through the provision of a wide range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems while ensuring the security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information, according to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
The PMO said, it will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.
The key components of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include a health ID for every citizen that will also 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) that 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 and hospitals and healthcare service providers.
Intending to be a part of the National Digital Health Ecosystem become a health information provider or a health information user or efficiently link with building blocks of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission Sandbox, created as a part of the mission, will act as a framework for technology and product testing that will help organisations, including private players, the PMO said.
Similar to the role played by the Unified Payments Interface in revolutionising payments, this mission will create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem, it said.
Citizens will only be a click away from accessing healthcare facilities, it added.
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