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{{Short description|Government agency in India}}
The '''Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)''' (previously known as '''National Digital Health Mission''') is implemented by the [[National Health Authority]] (NHA), an [[List of Government of India agencies|agency of the Government of India]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Press Information Bureau |url=https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1813660 |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=www.pib.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Government of India press release of ABDM launch |url=https://abdm.gov.in:8081/uploads/5be80b852edb8a9add7eb18eebe40124_35bf44d360.pdf}}</ref> The ABDM aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. It bridges the existing gap amongst different stakeholders of Healthcare ecosystem through digital highways.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NDHM|url=https://ndhm.gov.in/home/ndhm}}</ref> The Mission aims to create an integrated healthcare system that will link practitioners and patients digitally by giving them access to real-time health records. This will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mantri |first1=Manisha |last2=Sunder |first2=Gaur |last3=Kadam |first3=Sanjay |last4=Abhyankar |first4=Aditya |date=2024-04-11 |title=A perspective on digital health platform design and its implementation at national level |journal=Frontiers in Digital Health |volume=6 |article-number=1260855 |doi=10.3389/fdgth.2024.1260855 |doi-access=free |issn=2673-253X |pmid=38665619|pmc=11043488 }}</ref> leading to the creation of a national digital health ecosystem that supports universal health coverage in an efficient, accessible, inclusive, affordable, timely and safe manner.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FHIR Implementation Guide for Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission|url=https://www.nrces.in/ndhm/fhir/r4/index.html}}</ref>

To achieve this objective, digital building blocks in the form of [[digital public goods]] in [[federated architecture]] are being commissioned. These are based on a wide range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems that will ensure security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ndhm.gov.in/home/ndhm|title=NHA | Official website Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission }}</ref>

The program aligns with other government programs, including the [[Aadhaar]] identification program and the [[Ayushman Bharat Yojana]] healthcare program.<ref name="Dans 2020">{{cite web |last1=Dans |first1=Enrique |title=How India's National Digital Health Mission Is Set To Revolutionize Healthcare |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/08/17/how-indias-national-digital-health-mission-is-set-to-revolutionize-healthcare |website=[[Forbes]] |language=en |date=17 August 2020}}</ref>

==Responses==
''[[Forbes]]'' remarked that because of the large population of [[India]] any precedent for data management in the NDHM (now renamed as ABDM) would establish a model for other national health programs to study.<ref name="Dans 2020"/>

Commentators for ''[[The Ken]]'' criticized the announcement of the program for being very expensive with no publicly stated plan for either allocating money to achieve it nor for sustainably funding it in the longer term.<ref name="Singh September 2020">{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=Seema |last2=Porecha |first2=Maitri |title=The rush and hush of India's National Digital Health Mission |url=https://the-ken.com/story/behind-the-rush-and-hush-of-indias-digital-health-mission/ |website=[[The Ken]] |date=22 September 2020}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[National Health Claims Exchange]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://ndhm.gov.in/}}

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MyrnaAcuna04 at 12:05, 2 April 2026