Context: Recently, Prime Minister of India launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission under which Every Indian will now get a digital health ID.

• It coincides with the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY). 

Key Points

• Under this mission, a unique digital health ID will be provided to the people. This ID will contain all the health records of person.
• This mission was launched under the pilot project National Digital Health Mission.
• It will Create a seamless online platform through the provision of a wide-range of data, information and infrastructure services, duly leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems while ensuring the security, confidentiality and privacy of health-related personal information. 

Significance of the scheme

• It will ensure ease of doing business for doctors & hospitals and healthcare service providers. 
• It will create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem, on the line of role played by the Unified Payments Interface in revolutionising payments.
• It will enable access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent.

Key components of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include 

1. 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; 
2. A Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Healthcare Facilities Registries (HFR) that will act as a repository of all healthcare providers across both modern and traditional systems of medicine. 

About Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission Sandbox

• It created as a part of the Mission, will act as a framework for technology and product testing that will help organizations, including private players, intending to be a part of National Digital Health Ecosystem become a Health Information Provider or Health Information User or efficiently link with building blocks of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

Road Ahead

• The newly launched mission "will play a big role in eliminating problems in medical treatment of poor and middle class" and it has the power to bring a revolutionary change in India's health facilities.

Additional Key Facts

• 130 crore Aadhar IDs, 118 crore mobile subscribers, about 80 crore internet users and 43 crore Jan Dhan Bank accounts - such a huge, connected infrastructure can't be found anywhere else in the world. 
• This digital infrastructure - from ration to governance - is reaching every Indian in a transparent manner.