Doctors, Hospitals, Laboratories need to get registered with Ayushman Bharat registries: Central Government tells its facilities
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has asked all government departments and facilities like hospitals, laboratories and pharmacies and also their doctors to get enlisted on the dedicated registries under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
In a letter to secretaries of all central departments and directors of all central hospitals, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan advised government health facilities to procure and install a Health/Hospital Information Management System (HMIS), also known as Hospital Information System (HIS), at their facilities for generating digital health records.
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The government has decided that all its health facilities shall take part in the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission - ABDM (earlier known as National Digital Health Mission - NDHM), which was launched nationally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 27, the letter said.
Accordingly, all the government facilities (hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, radiology centres, etc.) where any healthcare service is provided are requested to register on the Health Facility Registry (HFR), under ABDM.
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