Health ID For Every Citizen, PM Launches Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

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By OB Bureau
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. Under this, a unique digital health ID will be provided to the people, which will contain all the health records of the person.

The prime minister announced the pilot project of the National Digital Health Mission in his Independence Day address on August 15, 2020.

“Today is a very important day. The drive to strengthen the health facilities of the country, in the last 7 years, is entering a new phase today. This is not an ordinary phase. This is an extraordinary phase,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, lauding the digital initiatives in the country

The project is being implemented in the pilot phase in six Union Territories. The nationwide rollout of the project coincides with the National Health Authority (NHA) celebrating the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), the statement said.

The mission will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent, a release from the PMO said.

The key components of the project 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, The Indian Express reported.

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