Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission via video conferencing on Monday. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will create a seamless online platform through the provision of a wide range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems while ensuring security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission via video conferencing on Monday, saying it will bring “revolutionary changes in the country’s healthcare facilities”. The launching of the event began at 11 am followed by Prime Minister Modi’s address on the occasion. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya was also present on the occasion.
“Today begins a Mission that has the power to bring a revolutionary change in India’s health facilities. 3 years ago, on Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya’s birth anniversary, Ayushman Bharat Yojana was implemented. I am happy that Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is being started nationwide from today,” the PM said.
“Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will play a big role in eliminating problems in medical treatment of poor and middle class. Via technology, work done by Ayushman Bharat to connect patients with hospitals across the nation is being further expanded and given strong technology platform,” the PM added.
“With the free vaccine movement, India has administered about 90 crore vaccine doses, therefore creating a record. Certification has also been issued for the same. CoWin has to be credited as well for this achievement,” PM Modi said at the launch of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
He also expressed his “gratitude to all doctors, nurses, medical staff of the nation. Be it vaccination or treatment of COVID patients, their efforts gave a huge relief to the nation & helped it in the fight against Corona.”
Outlining the government’s Jan Dhan account scheme, the BHIM digital payment interface, the PM said, “From ‘Rashan to Prashasan’, UPI is reaching the common man…With 118 crore mobile subscribers, about 80 crore internet users and about 43 crore ‘Jan Dhan’ bank accounts, nowhere in the world would you be seeing such a huge digital infrastructure.”
“On 15th August 2020, PM had announced the mission (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) from the ramparts of the Red Fort. I am happy that he is launching it today. I believe that this will bring a revolutionary change in the health sector,” Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said ahead of the launch.
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission: Top highlights
-The pilot project of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission had been announced by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15 last year.
-Currently, the programme is being implemented in the pilot phase in six union territories.
-The nation-wide rollout of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission coincides with the National Health Authority (NHA) celebrating the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).
-According to PMO, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will create a seamless online platform through the provision of a wide range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems while ensuring security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information.
-The Mission will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.
-The key components of the 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; 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.
-This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors/hospitals and healthcare service providers.
-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 organizations, including private players, intending to be a part of the National Digital Health Ecosystem become a Health Information Provider or Health Information User or efficiently link with building blocks of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
-The Mission will create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem, similar to the role played by the Unified Payments Interface in revolutionizing payments.
-Citizens will only be a click away from accessing healthcare facilities, according to the PMO.
