Key Takeaways
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) announced successful integration of additional 13 digital health solutions in the ABDM Sandbox environment in the last three months.
About Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
- The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country.
- The mission will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.
- This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers.
- The scheme will come under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
- Vision of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
- To create a national digital health ecosystem that supports universal health coverage in an efficient, accessible, inclusive, affordable, timely and safe manner,
- To provide a wide-range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems, and ensures the security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information.
- Digital Systems
- Benefits of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
- Patients:
- ABDM is expected to significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of health service delivery overall.
- patients will be able to securely store and access their medical records (such as prescriptions, diagnostic reports and discharge summaries), and share them with health care providers to ensure appropriate treatment and follow-up.
- provide choice to individuals to access both public and private health services,
- Ensure transparency in pricing of services and accountability for the health services being rendered.
- Health Care Professionals:
- health care professionals across disciplines will have better access to patient’s medical history (with the necessary informed consent) for prescribing more appropriate and effective health interventions.
- The integrated ecosystem will also enable better continuum of care
- Policy Makers
- policy makers and programme managers will have better access to data, enabling more informed decision making by the Government.
- Better quality of macro and micro-level data will enable advanced analytics, usage of health-biomarkers and better preventive healthcare.
- It will also enable geography and demography-based monitoring and appropriate decision making to inform design and strengthen implementation of health programmes and policies.
- Researchers
- researchers will greatly benefit from the availability of such aggregated information as they will be able to study and evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and interventions
- Patients:
| National Health Authority (NHA) National Health Authority (NHA) is the apex body responsible for implementing India’s flagship public health insurance/assurance scheme called “Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana” National Health Authority is the successor of the National Health Agency, which has been functioning as a registered society since 23rd May, 2018. NHA is governed by a Governing Board chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare To implement the scheme at the State level, State Health Agencies (SHAs) in the form of a society/trust have been set up by respective States. |
Content Source: The Hindu
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