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. 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. 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 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.
To achieve this objective, digital building blocks in the form of
digital public goods
Digital public goods are public goods in the form of software, data sets, AI models, standards or content that are generally free cultural works and contribute to sustainable national and international digital development.
Use of the term "digit ...
in
federated architecture
Federated architecture (FA) is a pattern in enterprise architecture that allows interoperability and information sharing between semi-autonomous de-centrally organized lines of business (LOBs), information technology systems and applications.
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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.
The program aligns with other government programs, including the
Aadhaar
Aadhaar ( hi, आधार, ādhār, lit=base, foundation, bn, আধার) is a 12-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by the citizens of India and resident foreign nationals who have spent over 182 days in twelve ...
identification program and the
Ayushman Bharat Yojana
Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana ( or PM-JAY'';'' also referred to as Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Scheme or NHPS) is a national public health insurance fund of the Government of India that aims to provide free acc ...
healthcare program.
Responses
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Forbes
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'' remarked that because of the large population of
India
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any precedent for data management in the NDHM (now renamed as ABDM) would establish a model for other national health programs to study.
Commentators for ''
The Ken
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'' 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.
See also
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National Health Claims Exchange
References
External links
*{{official website, http://ndhm.gov.in/
Medical and health government agencies of India
Identity documents of India