Digital health ID card using smart phone: The digital health card is introduced by Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) in order to build backbone to Indian health eco system. This health card is useful for you to keep your entire health records in digital form. Through this health card you can find date and time of every treatments, medicines prescribed by different doctors, lab tests reports etc. In short it is a capsule format of your health records.
Why should you need a health card? As you all know we consult a doctor when we got sick. Doctor may prescribe few checkups or lab test in order to diagnose your desease. We will get back a copy of every tests results and doctor will prescribe some medicines. At the same time doctor keep a record of your’s having his assumptions and recordings. It is totally blind to us that we can never access it. Only hospital authorities can access it. If we aren’t satisfied with this doctor we again go to another doctor and make another records.
In the case all your health history are spread here and there.Some people have health insurance to reduce their hospital expenditure.There is no sync between all these records. In order to make a bridge or high way that connects these separate entities to a single backbone Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) creates health card for Indian citizens. Now it is totally optional. How to create health id card? If you have mobile verified aadhaar card it is very easy.Click on the given link and click on ‘Generate via aadhaar’ on coming window.Enter your aadhaar number and authenticate it with OTP received .Then you need to register your mobile number for health card use. Then you can view your aadhaar details on coming window. All fields except name can’t be changed.You need to set phr address in order to avoid the hassles of using long health id in future.Finally submit your application.Now you can download, print and laminate your health id card.
