AIZAWL: The National Health Authority (NHA) launched the first Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) microsite under the 100 Microsites Project in Aizawl, Mizoram, according to an official release on Wednesday. As per an official release by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the NHA announced a 100 microsites project for accelerated adoption of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) across the country. "Mizoram became the first state in India to operationalize an ABDM microsite in its capital city, Aizawl. Under this, all healthcare facilities, including the private clinics, small hospitals, and labs in the region, shall be made ABDM-enabled and will offer digital health services to the patients," said the release.
Speaking on the significance of the project, the CEO of NHA said, "The 100 microsite project under ABDM is a very important initiative for reaching out to the bulk of small and medium-scale healthcare providers from the private sector. The concept of microsites was envisaged to provide a strong impetus to healthcare digitization efforts across the country. The efforts of the Mizoram team have resulted in Aizawl becoming the first ABDM microsite in India. The NHA looks forward to a similar enthusiastic response from other state teams." Speaking at the Microsite launch event, Additional Secretary, H&FW Mizoram Betsy Zothanpari Sailo said, "We firmly believe that digitization of health services can help us achieve our goal of universal health coverage. With digital services at our health facilities and secure access to digital health records, the patients shall benefit the most."
Our teams made conscious efforts to closely study the process of ABDM enablement and have selected an implementation partner to operationalize our first microsite in Aizawl. We are all geared up to take the implementation into mission mode and ensure that the Aizawl Microsite lives up to its role as the first ABDM Microsite in the country, added Betsy Zothanpari Sailo.
The ABDM Microsites are defined geographical regions where focused outreach efforts would be made to onboard small and medium-scale private healthcare providers, stated the release.
These microsites would be mostly implemented by state mission directors of ABDM, while financial resources and overall guidance would be provided by NHA. An interfacing agency under this programme will have an on-ground team to reach out to the healthcare providers in the area, it added.
This team will spread awareness about the benefits of ABDM and will help the service providers join the core registries under ABDM, besides promoting the use of ABDM to enable digital solutions for regular clinical documentation, it said further. The official release also said that patients will be able to link the health records generated at these facilities with their Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHAs) and will be able to view and share these records using any ABDM-enabled Personal Health Record (PHR) application on their phones (https://phr.abdm.gov.in/uhi/1231). NHA had previously overseen Microsites pilots in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Surat. The learnings and experiences from these pilots have been incorporated into the overall structure of the 100 Microsites project under ABDM, said the release. (ANI)
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