NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission through video conferencing.
“This Mission has potential to bring revolutionary changes in our health facilities,” PM Modi said at the virtual event.
“Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will play a big role in eliminating problems in medical treatment of poor and middle class,” he added.
The government had announced the pilot project on Independence Day last year.
Salient features of the new program –
1. It will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.
2. The new programme will help create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem, similar to the role played by the Unified Payments Interface in revolutionising payments.
3. It will also help ensure security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. It will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers.
7. Currently, the programme is being implemented on a pilot basis in six Union Territories.
Furthermore, 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 to be a part of the National Digital Health Ecosystem to become a health information provider.
Aarogya Setu helped prevent spread of Covid-19: PM
The national rollout of government’s new mission coincides with the National Health Authority (NHA) celebrating the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
So far more than 2 crore countrymen have availed the facility of free treatment under this scheme.
During the virtual event, PM Modi also talked about the Arogya Setu application and said it helped a lot in preventing the spread of Covid-19 infection.
“We have been able to take the vaccine to everyone, under the free vaccine campaign. India has been able to apply about 90 crore vaccine doses today, and Co-WIN has a big role in it,” he said.
He added that there has also been an unprecedented expansion of telemedicine during the pandemic period.
He further said that the digital infrastructure is taking the ration from the administration to the common man in India in a fast, and transparent manner,” adding that about 43 crore Jan Dhan bank accounts are operational along with 80 crore internet users, and that nowhere in the world there exists such big connected infrastructure.
(With inputs from Agencies)
“This Mission has potential to bring revolutionary changes in our health facilities,” PM Modi said at the virtual event.
“Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will play a big role in eliminating problems in medical treatment of poor and middle class,” he added.
The government had announced the pilot project on Independence Day last year.
Salient features of the new program –
1. It will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.
2. The new programme will help create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem, similar to the role played by the Unified Payments Interface in revolutionising payments.
3. It will also help ensure security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. It will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers.
7. Currently, the programme is being implemented on a pilot basis in six Union Territories.
Furthermore, 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 to be a part of the National Digital Health Ecosystem to become a health information provider.
Aarogya Setu helped prevent spread of Covid-19: PM
The national rollout of government’s new mission coincides with the National Health Authority (NHA) celebrating the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
So far more than 2 crore countrymen have availed the facility of free treatment under this scheme.
During the virtual event, PM Modi also talked about the Arogya Setu application and said it helped a lot in preventing the spread of Covid-19 infection.
“We have been able to take the vaccine to everyone, under the free vaccine campaign. India has been able to apply about 90 crore vaccine doses today, and Co-WIN has a big role in it,” he said.
He added that there has also been an unprecedented expansion of telemedicine during the pandemic period.
He further said that the digital infrastructure is taking the ration from the administration to the common man in India in a fast, and transparent manner,” adding that about 43 crore Jan Dhan bank accounts are operational along with 80 crore internet users, and that nowhere in the world there exists such big connected infrastructure.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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