National Digital Health Mission

The National Digital Health Mission was launched by PM Modi on August 15, 2020.
Its aim is to make India a Digital Health Nation through a National digital health ecosystem.
The NDHM is a complete digital health ecosystem with personal health IDs for every Indian and digitisation of health records.
It consists of a registry of doctors and health facilities across the country.
The digital platform will be launched with four key features – Health ID, Personal health records, Digi Doctor and Health facility registry.
This ID will be applicable across states, hospitals, diagnostic laboratories and pharmacies.
The patient will grant permission to access confidential medical data at every visit to doctor, enabling privacy of the patient.
At a later stage, it will also include e-pharmacy and telemedicine services, regulatory guidelines for which are being framed.
The National Health Agency (implementing agency for Ayushman Bharat) has created the platform, which will be available in the form of an app and website.
The as it will be up to an individual to get enrolled on the app.