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National Digital Health Mission
The National Digital Health Mission is an agency of the Government of India which seeks to provide medical identity document to Indian people. This identity document would enable people to use Ayushman Bharat Yojana, which is a service in India's publicly funded health care.
The program aligns with other government programs, including the Aadhaar identification program and the Ayushman Bharat Yojana healthcare program.[1]
Users keep the identification document as an account in a mobile app.[2]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the establishment of the NDHM on Independence Day 2020.[3] In his description of the program, he said that the program would provide an identification number to everyone in the country, and that the system would manage everyone's government health records.[4]
Responses[edit]
Forbes remarked that because of the large population of India any precedent for data management in the NDHM would establish a model for other national health programs to study.[1]
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.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dans, Enrique (17 August 2020). "How India's National Digital Health Mission Is Set To Revolutionize Healthcare". Forbes.
- ↑ FP Staff (17 August 2020). "Narendra Modi launches National Digital Health Mission; all you need to know about new health ID". Firstpost.
- ↑ EH News Bureau (29 August 2020). "National Digital Health Mission – Harnessing technology to strengthen healthcare in India". Express Healthcare. Indian Express Limited.
- ↑ Chaturvedi, Amit (15 August 2020). "Explained: What is National Digital Health Mission and how it will benefit people". Hindustan Times.
- ↑ Singh, Seema; Porecha, Maitri (22 September 2020). "The rush and hush of India's National Digital Health Mission". The Ken.