The National Health Authority (NHA) on Tuesday held an Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) Multi-stakeholder meet in New Delhi. According to a press statement, the event saw participation from NHA leadership, State ABDM teams, representatives from the Development Partners, Interface Agencies and Digital Solution Companies developing ABDM-enabled software.
To facilitate the implementation and monitoring of ABDM Microsites, an exclusive date-entry Mobile Application for the field level functionaries and a login-based dashboard for effective monitoring at National, State and Microsite level was also launched in the event by Dr. Basant Garg, Additional CEO, NHA & Mission Director, ABDM.
As on date, 29 ABDM Microsites have been initiated across 10 states/ UTs in the country. Ranjan Kumar, Secretary (Health) and State Mission Director, ABDM, Uttar Pradesh announced 35 more microsites in the state of UP in the event taking the total to 64 microsites in the country, it stated.
“Our learnings from the ABDM Microsites pilots have given us insights into the challenges faced by the smaller health facilities and the apprehensions of the patients in adopting digital health services. Together with our development partners, state teams and other stakeholders, we are focusing on micro-level trainings for capacity building of our field teams and more effective awareness material to communicate about the benefits of digital services enabled by ABDM,” Dr. Basant Garg, Additional CEO, NHA & Mission Director, ABDM said in a statement.
The stakeholders meet saw experience sharing sessions and panel discussions from the Development Partners which included PATH Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), WISH Foundation and ACCESS Health International, State teams, Interface agencies like HLFPPT, Doctors For You, Entero Labs, Bhavya Health, Alert India, Eehul Foundation and Youth for Action and Digital Solutions Companies like IPlit, Bajaj Finserve Health, Caare, ClinAlly mPower Health, Cloud Pathology, Driefcase Connect, EkaCare EMR, HODO Labzapp, MocDoc LMIS, Plus91 and Raxa focusing on efforts to make ABDM Microsites a success.