Industry Odisha Bureau, Jun 30: As a part and parcel of the ongoing Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), Union Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) J.P. Nadda reportedly launched yesterday the revamped Aarogya Setu App for the purpose of Personal Health Record (PHR) of India’s citizens.
Need to be mentioned here that, the Aarogya Setu App was “originally developed to track COVID-19 and has a captive user base of nearly 20 crore downloads as well as steady addition of new users.”
The MoHF&W in its statement reportedly said, “The application offers a unique opportunity to accelerate citizen adoption, mainstream digital health usage across geographies and position ABDM as a part of everyday healthcare interactions.”
Reports said that, “The revamped version of the application includes access to ABDM-enabled services, including ABHA creation, health record management, and seamless digital registration. Digitisation of medical health records include lab reports, creation of personalized health dashboard using the medical history, and ability of users to monitor and manage their health seamlessly with integrated vitals, personalized reminders, goal tracking, and wearable-device syncing for steps, calories, heart rate, and glucose levels.”
Besides, “The PM-JAY Wallet feature will show a clear overview of healthcare coverage, including total balance, amount used, and family-wise consumption. People can discover nearby healthcare facilities and view real-time blood unit availability for timely access to critical care and ambulance booking; manage medication and follow prescribed schedules that can be added from prescriptions or manually, with reminders set by time, frequency, and dosage; and will also allow users to search AB-PMJAY empaneled hospitals offering cashless treatment.”
The Union Health Minister also reportedly launched the “Unified Health Interface (UHI)—the Interoperable Network for Digital Health Services. It is the service layer of ABDM, an open network with common technical standards that enables patients and healthcare providers to connect across different digital platforms, without being tied to any single application.”
In his remarks on the special occasion, the Union Health Minister reportedly said, “In India’s existing digital health ecosystem, both the patient and the provider must be on the same platform to interact. This limits providers to the demand on one application, and limits citizens to limited services and providers on a singular app. UHI resolves this by allowing any verified participant to discover and transact with any other, regardless of which app they use.”
