The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will provide a digital health ID to the people who will hold their health records.
Features of the Mission:
- Every Indian citizen will now have unique health IDs,digitised health records with identifiers fordoctors and health facilities.
- The Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
- It comprises six key building blocks —HealthID, DigiDoctor, Health Facility Registry,Personal Health Records, e-Pharmacy and Telemedicine.
- The National Health Authority is the implementing agency for the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
- The core building blocks of the mission is that the health ID, DigiDoctor and Health Facility Registry shall be owned, operated and maintained by the Government of India.
- Private stakeholders will have an equal opportunity.
- Every Indian will get a Health ID card that will store all medical details of the person including prescriptions, treatment, diagnostic reports and discharge summaries.
- Health ID is a randomly generated 14-digit number used for the purposes of uniquely identifying persons, authenticating them, and threading their health records.
- The citizens will be able to give their doctors and health providers one-time access to this data during visits to the hospital for consultation.
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