E-commerce, Payment Platforms Will Be Integrated With Unified Health Interface

After integrating these platforms with UHI, users can access a large number of health services such as telephone consultation, access to lab facilities, transfer of test reports or medical records to a doctor digitally and pay for any of the above services digitally.

E-commerce platforms and online payments will soon be merged with Unified Health Interface (UHI) under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), India’s National Health Authority (NHA) government has confirmed to Business Today.

The government-backed UHI is an open network designed to empower the delivery of interactive digital health services.

As well as companies and organizations in health care, players who are a major part of e-commerce or payment systems, such as Paytm or Flipkart, have also begun to integrate with us. We have one dedicated page on the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission website where we show all our partners who have joined us so far. said Kiran Gopal Vaska, Director of NHA.

More than 800 Platforms

More than 800 Platforms are currently in the various stages of integration. Notable names like SRL Diagnostics, Dr Lal Path Labs, Apollo Hospitals, new health technology companies like DocPrime, DRiefcase etc., government applications such as Aarogya Setu, some of the companies and products affiliated with UHI. he said.

The NHA is a government agency that operates through ABDM. ABDM, says the central government, aims to build a seamless internet platform by providing a wide range of information, information and infrastructure resources, effectively utilizing open, interactive, state-of-the-art digital systems while ensuring security, confidentiality and privacy. personal information related to health.

UHI has strong interactions which are the next major threshold for enabling seamless data transfer of patient data. The mass compilation of patient data is a major opportunity for health care in both the public and private sectors. said Vaska, adding that UHI would be instrumental in bringing people together and compiling their health records and health services digitally through this partnership.

Indian Government priority

The NHA is also responsible for the implementation of another Indian Government priority program – Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). AB-PMJAY is a federal government-funded program that provides coverage of up to Rs 5 lakhs per family per year, hospitalization of secondary health care and tertiary education. PMJAY, free and undocumented access to services for beneficiaries in the service area, aims to cater for the more than 10.74 million vulnerable families (approximately 50 million beneficiaries) who will qualify for these benefits. Since health insurance is another government focus, UHI may have an impact on insurance claims.

In fact, UHI will have seamless cooperation and exchange of health claims. In an open network, such as UHI, patients and health service providers may be in different applications but will be able to communicate seamlessly. Insurance is also an important part of the digital healthcare environment as UHI also aims to improve or reduce out-of-pocket costs through better healthcare or insurance coverage. Said, Vaska.

Vaska explained that with regard to the integration of patient information, UHI will enable data sharing from anywhere to wherever one wants to see or access it for the purpose of providing health care.

The consolidation of bulk patient data is a slightly different concept where UHI does not fit into the image where all organizations participating in the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission share anonymous aggregated data for the purpose of analysis, which can be used by those to share the data themselves. he said