New Delhi: “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will now connect the digital health solutions of hospitals across the country with each other. Under this, the countrymen will now get a digital health ID. The health record of every citizen will be digitally protected”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on September 27, 2021 while launching Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. The digital mission aims to bring all stakeholders related to health – patients, healthcare workers, paramedics, hospitals, clinics, labs, pharmacies – on a single platform. PM Modi said that the campaign aims to make health services easy and accessible in the country.
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Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission includes Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) previously known as Health ID, Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Health Facility Registry (HFR). Let’s take a look at each component.
What Is A Health ID?
Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) aims at creating India’s digital health ecosystem. ABHA allows you to create digital health records for yourself and your family and access and share them digitally. ABHA is a randomly generated 14 digit number used for the purposes of uniquely identifying persons, authenticating them, and threading their health records (only with their informed consent) across multiple systems and stakeholders.
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How To Create ABHA?
You can get ABHA by self-registration on the ABHA web portal or by downloading the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission Health Records application from the Google Playstore. You can also request for creation of your ABHA at a participating health facility, which may include public or private hospitals, community health centre and health and wellness centres across India.
You can create ABHA either through Aadhaar or mobile number or a driving license. If you use your Aadhaar Number to create your ABHA on the ABHA portal, one-time password (OTP) will be sent to the mobile number linked to your Aadhaar. Registration through a mobile number or Aadhaar takes less than 10 minutes.
Remember, in the case of driving license, after submitting your details you will get an enrolment number which you will have to take to a nearby participating facility to get ABHA.
Create Your ABHA Through Mobile Number
1. Enter your mobile number and verify it using an OTP to proceed.
2. Fill in your details including name, date of birth, and gender.
3. Create your PHR (Personal Health Records) Address, a self-declared username that is required to sign into a Health Information Exchange & Consent Manager (HIE-CM). Currently, all ABHA users can generate their own PHR Address during ABHA sign-up.
4. Create a password and add your state and district.
5. On clicking the ‘submit’ button, your ABHA will be created and you will be intimidated through an SMS on your mobile number. You can also download your ABHA card from the website.
What Is The Purpose Of ABHA (Health ID)?
Picture this: Working in a factory in the national capital Delhi, Prateek who hails from a remote village in Bihar, meets with an accident. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctor asks for his medical records. Apparently, all his documents are back in his village. Under such a scenario, a patient is asked to take all essential tests again which obviously adds to the medical cost and is time-consuming resulting in delayed treatment.
Here comes the role of ABHA or Health ID which will contain details of every test, every disease, the doctors visited, the medicines taken and the diagnosis. Since the information is stored digitally, it can be made available anytime, anywhere.
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What Is Healthcare Professionals Registry?
Healthcare Professionals Registry is a repository of all healthcare professionals involved in the delivery of healthcare services across both modern and traditional systems of medicine. The Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) is a bridge built by Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission to connect healthcare workers with patients.
Since doctors do not advertise in newspapers, it is only through word of mouth that one gets to know about a good doctor. Now all the information of the doctors regarding their specialty, the nearby doctors, where to reach immediately will be available, PM Modi had said.
As part of HPR, verified healthcare professionals can treat patients remotely through telemedicine and review digital health records.
What Is Health Facility Registry?
Health Facility Registry (HFR) is a comprehensive repository of health facilities of the country across different systems of medicine. It includes both public and private health facilities including hospitals, clinics, diagnostic laboratories and imaging centers, pharmacies, among other.
As of April 5, 2022, 21.18 crore ABHA numbers have been created, 24,390 health facilities and 11,645 doctors have registered themselves.
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