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The Future of Healthcare in India

About Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, launched on September 27, 2021, aims to enhance the accessibility and equity of health services through IT and associated technologies. It adopts a citizen-centric approach to support existing health systems. The mission envisions creating a digital health ecosystem to achieve universal health coverage efficiently, affordably, and safely.
Expected benefits include improved efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of health services, providing individuals with choices to access both public and private healthcare, and granting healthcare professionals better access to patient medical history for enhanced care delivery.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission holds promise to greatly enhance health service delivery
effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency.

Patients will be able to securely store and access their medical records, they will also be share them with health care providers which will ensure appropriate treatment and follow-up. Individuals will have access to more accurate information on private as well as public health facilities and service providers. Moreover, patients can access health services remotely through tele-consultation and e-pharmacy.

Health care professionals will have better access to patient’s medical history to provide a better and effective health solutions. ABDM will digitize the claims process and enable faster reimbursements

The ABDM will enable Policy makers to have better access to data to take an informed decision. Better quality & accessibility of macro and micro-level data will enable advanced analytics, usage of health-biomarkers and a much better preventive healthcare. It will empower the government to have a geography and demography-based monitoring and appropriate decision making, eventually design and strengthen implementation of health programmes and policies.

The researchers will be able to access aggregated information as they will be able to study and evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and interventions. ABDM would facilitate a comprehensive feedback loop between researchers, policymakers, and providers.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission holds promise to greatly enhance health service delivery
effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency.

Patients will be able to securely store and access their medical records, they will also be share them with health care providers which will ensure appropriate treatment and follow-up. Individuals will have access to more accurate information on private as well as public health facilities and service providers. Moreover, patients can access health services remotely through tele-consultation and e-pharmacy.

Health care professionals will have better access to patient’s medical history to provide a better and effective health solutions. ABDM will digitize the claims process and enable faster reimbursements

The ABDM will enable Policy makers to have better access to data to take an informed decision. Better quality & accessibility of macro and micro-level data will enable advanced analytics, usage of health-biomarkers and a much better preventive healthcare. It will empower the government to have a geography and demography-based monitoring and appropriate decision making, eventually design and strengthen implementation of health programmes and policies.

The researchers will be able to access aggregated information as they will be able to study and evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and interventions. ABDM would facilitate a comprehensive feedback loop between researchers, policymakers, and providers.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission holds promise to greatly enhance health service delivery
effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency.

Patients will be able to securely store and access their medical records, they will also be share them with healthcare providers, which will ensure appropriate treatment and follow-up. Individuals will have access to more accurate information on private as well as public health facilities and service providers. Moreover, patients can access health services remotely through tele-consultation and e-pharmacy.

Healthcare professionals will have better access to patients’ medical histories to promote better and more effective healthcare solutions. ABDM will digitize the claims process and enable faster reimbursements.

The ABDM will enable policy makers to have better access to data to take an informed decision. Better quality & accessibility of macro- and micro-level data will enable advanced analytics, usage of health biomarkers and much better preventive healthcare. It will empower the government with geographic and demographic-based monitoring for appropriate decision making, leading to the design of and stronger implementation for health programs and policies.

Researchers will be able to access aggregated information to study and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and interventions. ABDM will facilitate a comprehensive feedback loop among researchers, policy makers, and providers.

About
Digital Health Incentives Scheme (DHIS)

Since the launch of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), digital health records have seen significant growth. However, many still rely on non-digital healthcare services, indicating a need for further digitization across India.
To boost digital health transactions, the National Health Authority (NHA) introduced the Digital Health Incentive Scheme (DHIS) for healthcare providers.
Through DHIS, doctors can digitize patient health records and earn incentives of up to ₹4 crores.
Furthermore, DHIS encourages makers of digital health software, such as Hospital/Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Laboratory Management Information System (LMIS), to offer their solutions at fair and affordable prices.

Benefits of Digital Health Incentive Scheme

Earn Incentives for Digitization

Reimburse digitization expenses to all participating healthcare facilities and digital solution companies.

Improve Efficiency in Healthcare Delivery

Provide seamless access to patients' longitudinal health records and remove hassles in healthcare registration, appointments, consultations, IPD admissions, discharges, and more.

Build a Digital Health Ecosystem

Build a digital health ecosystem across different levels of healthcare facilities.

Improved Quality of Care

Providers evidence-based, accessible, high-quality care. Improve patients' access to digitized health records and improve healthcare delivery.

Who is eligible?

  • All health facilities, including clinics, nursing homes, and hospitals.
  • Laboratory, radiology, and diagnostics centers and pharmacies.
  • Entities providing ABDM-enabled digital solutions, including digital solutions companies.

How do I get the incentives?

I am a health facility

Step 1:  Register on the Health Facility Registry

Step 2: Start using ABDM-enabled software

Step 3: Log in to your HFR profile to register for DHIS

Step 4: Lot in to your HFR profile to claim the incentive

Benefits

Benefits will be provided to the health facilities only for transactions done above the base level of transactions i.e. only the transactions above the threshold.

Type of entity

Hospitals/Clinics/Nursing homes

Diagnostic Facilities/Labs/Pharmacies

Base-level criteria

100 transactions per month

100 transactions per month

Incentives

Rs 20 per additional transaction above the base level

Rs 20 per additional transaction above the base level

Note: It is expected that the benefits provided to the DSCs will help reduce the cost or will be further transferred to the concerned health facilities to cover their cost of digitization.

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