With reference to the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, consider the following statements: 1) Private and public hospitals must adopt it. 2) As it aims to achieve universal health coverage, every citizen of India should be part of it ultimately. [2022]

With reference to the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, consider the following statements:

Private and public hospitals must adopt it.
As it aims to achieve universal health coverage, every citizen of India should be part of it ultimately.
It has seamless portability across the country.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission serves to implement a key objective of National Health Policy 2017 i.e. creation of a digital health technology eco-system aiming at developing an integrated health information system that improves efficiency, transparency, and citizens’ experience, with linkage across public and private healthcare. It was earlier known as the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM). It is a Central Sector Scheme and is implemented by the National Health Authority (NHA).
Participation in ABDM is voluntary including for citizens. Participation of a healthcare facility or an institution is also voluntary and shall be taken by the respective management (government or private management). However, once the management decides to register the respective healthcare facility/institution in ABDM, it is essential for all the healthcare professionals serving the said facility/institution to register in Healthcare Professionals Registry so that the institution can become fully integrated with the National Digital Health Ecosystem (NDHE).

It has been launched for promoting digitization of healthcare and creating an open interoperable digital health ecosystem for the country. It aims to do so by prescribing common health data standards, developing core modules such as registry of health facilities, healthcare professionals etc required for interoperability; so that various digital health systems can interact with each other by enabling seamless sharing of data across various healthcare providers who may be using different digital health systems.

Statement 1 can be eliminated easily because the word “must” indicates an extreme/mandatory claim, whereas such schemes are generally voluntary. Once Statement 1 is eliminated, options containing it are removed, and only Statement 3 is left, making it the correct answer (b) 3 only.