Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

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The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) (previously known as National Digital Health Mission) is implemented by the National Health Authority (NHA), an agency of the Government of India. [1] [2] The ABDM aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. It bridges the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of Healthcare ecosystem through digital highways. [3] The Mission aims to create an integrated healthcare system that will link practitioners and patients digitally by giving them access to real-time health records. This will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country [4] leading to the creation of a national digital health ecosystem that supports universal health coverage in an efficient, accessible, inclusive, affordable, timely and safe manner. [5]

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To achieve this objective, digital building blocks in the form of digital public goods in federated architecture are being commissioned. These are based on a wide range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems that will ensure security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information. [6]

The program aligns with other government programs, including the Aadhaar identification program and the Ayushman Bharat Yojana healthcare program. [7]

Responses

Forbes remarked that because of the large population of India any precedent for data management in the NDHM (now renamed as ABDM) would establish a model for other national health programs to study. [7]

Commentators for The Ken criticized the announcement of the program for being very expensive with no publicly stated plan for either allocating money to achieve it nor for sustainably funding it in the longer term. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Press Information Bureau". www.pib.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  2. ↑ "Government of India press release of ABDM launch" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "NDHM".
  4. ↑ Mantri, Manisha; Sunder, Gaur; Kadam, Sanjay; Abhyankar, Aditya (2024-04-11). "A perspective on digital health platform design and its implementation at national level". Frontiers in Digital Health. 6: 1260855. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2024.1260855 . ISSN   2673-253X. PMC   11043488 . PMID   38665619.
  5. ↑ "NDHM Vision".
  6. ↑ "NHA | Official website Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission".
  7. 1 2 Dans, Enrique (17 August 2020). "How India's National Digital Health Mission Is Set To Revolutionize Healthcare". Forbes .
  8. ↑ Singh, Seema; Porecha, Maitri (22 September 2020). "The rush and hush of India's National Digital Health Mission". The Ken .
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