Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: India’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission has crossed 93.95 crore health accounts, the Health Ministry said, extending a digital backbone that lets citizens hold their medical records in one place and share them, with consent, across hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.
The platform has now linked more than 105 crore health records, and registered over 5.33 lakh health facilities and 9.85 lakh healthcare professionals. The reach follows a late-June rollout of five new tools — among them an upgraded Aarogya Setu 2.0 app, a Unified Health Interface, a national Drug Registry and a citizen chatbot — designed to make care more connected and easier to navigate.
Records in one place: A digital health ID lets patients carry their history between providers, with consent at the centre.
The value of a health ID is not the number issued but the moment it saves a patient from repeating a test or retelling a history — access has to become everyday use.
At a Glance
- Health accounts: 93.95 crore ABHA numbers created
- Records linked: Over 105 crore
- Registered: 5.33 lakh facilities; 9.85 lakh professionals
- New tools: Aarogya Setu 2.0, Unified Health Interface, Drug Registry, chatbot
The honest test ahead is depth over headline scale: making sure records are actually used at the point of care, that data privacy and consent are protected, and that patients in smaller towns and villages see the benefit, not just the sign-up. Interoperability across private and public providers is the piece that turns a registry into a service.
The constructive read is that India is building the plumbing of a modern health system in the open, as public infrastructure. Kept secure and made genuinely usable at the clinic counter, the digital health stack can cut duplication, speed treatment and widen access for the next hundreds of millions.
