Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission at 11 AM today through video conferencing. The pilot project of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission had been announced by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of Red Fort on 15th August last year.

Currently, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is being implemented in pilot phase in six Union Territories. These UTs are Andaman and Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Ladakh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry. In a tweet, Mr Modi said, today is an important day for India's healthcare sector.

He said, this Mission leverages technology to improve access to healthcare and opens doors for new innovation in the sector. Our correspondent reports that the nation-wide rollout of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission coincides with National Health Aauthority celebrating the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. The Mission will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.

The mission will usher a new revolution in Health Sector. The key components of Ayushman Bharat Digital 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. This health account will contain details of every test, every disease, the doctors visited, the medicines taken and the diagnosis.

This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers. This 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.