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04/03/23 08:00 AM IST

NHA under its flagship scheme ABDM achieves another milestone

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  • The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has achieved another milestone in building a digitally connected healthcare ecosystem.
  • Over 25 crore health records of individuals have been linked to their Ayushman Bharat Health Account- ABHA.
About Ayushman Bharat Health Account
  • The ABHA app will be instrumental in helping citizens to create their longitudinal health records.
  • The patients can access their health records with the help of their ABHA address in seconds which will empower them in many ways.
  • It will enable them to save their health history on a single platform and access or share their health records anytime and anywhere without a worry of losing them.
  • This digitization of data exchange will ensure better clinical decision making and continuum of care.
About ABDM
  • The ABDM was launched by the Indian Government in September 2021 to connect the digital health solutions of various hospitals with each other.
  • It makes use of Ayushman Bharat Health Account or ABHA numbers.
  • Its objective is to ensure ease of living and simplify hospital-related processes.
  • It prevents the loss of medical records and increases the efficiency of healthcare services.
AB-PMJAY
  • Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) is the flagship scheme of the Union government as a part of the Indian government’s National Health Policy.
  • AB-PMJAY provides a health cover of up to Rs. 5 lakh a family a year, for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization, to India’s bottom 40% poor and vulnerable population.
  • The programme was launched in September, 2018.
  • AB-PMJAY is under the aegis of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
  • The PM Jan Arogya Yojana beneficiaries get an e-card that can be used to avail services at an empanelled hospital, public or private, anywhere in the country, with which they can walk into a hospital and obtain cashless treatment.
  • The scheme has certain pre-conditions by which it picks who can avail of the health cover benefit. While in the rural areas the list is mostly categorized on lack of housing, meagre income and other deprivations, the urban list of PMJAY beneficiaries is drawn up on the basis of occupation.
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” & has been entrusted with the role of designing strategy, building technological infrastructure and implementation of “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission” to create a National Digital Health Eco-system.
Source- AIR News

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