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Every Indian will get an Aadhaar-like health ID card that will record details of every visit to a doctor or a pharmacy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced this Independence Day. This process of digitising the patient landscape has been in the works since 2018.
Led by the National Health Authority (NHA), the central agency implementing the health coverage scheme, Ayushman Bharat, the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), as it is called, aims to provide people with a unique, digital health identifier, gathering all records in a unified system. So far, over 100,000 people have got these IDs.
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